The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 64
He will go for some, and while he is gone I will tell you what to do."
Who acts: Aladdin, I · What happens: go, be, tell, do · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 some | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tell | cc |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 gone | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | cop |
| 11 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tell | advcl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 do | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tell | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | Aladdin | for some | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for some=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Aladdin | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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