The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 75
Choose any ten you like, and drive them before you."
Who acts: you · What happens: choose, like, drive · To what, where: any, ten, beasts
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Choose | obj |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 like | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 any | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drive | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drive | cc |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Choose | parataxis |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drive | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 drive | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Choose | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | imperative | you not said here | any | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like | present | you | ten | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | drive | infinitive | beasts = beast | before you | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before you=Destination |
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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