The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 112
There must be stables and horses and grooms and slaves; go and see about it!"
Who acts: stables · What happens: be, go, see
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stables), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 be | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 horses | cc |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stables | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grooms | cc |
| 8 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stables | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slaves | cc |
| 10 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stables | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | must | stables and horses and grooms and slaves | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | about Slave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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