The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 60
The writing is indeed that of the Caliph, but the formula is absent.
Who acts: writing, formula · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (writing, formula), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 writing | det |
| 2 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Caliph | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Caliph | cop |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 Caliph | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Caliph | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Caliph | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caliph | det |
| 8 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 absent | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 absent | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 formula | det |
| 12 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 absent | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 absent | cop |
| 14 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Caliph | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Caliph | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the writing | of the Caliph; indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the formula | absent property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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