The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 87
"Make a good use of them, my brother," said the holy man. "
Who acts: holy man · What happens: make, say, use · To what, where: good use, camels · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (holy man), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 use | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 use | amod |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brother | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | infinitive | a good use of camels | my brother obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the holy man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | use in a quote | camels = camel | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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