The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 93
And really, a dervish who has given up the world has no need of ointment!"
Who acts: dervish · What happens: give up, have, need · To what, where: world, need, ointment
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 (dervish), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 has | cc |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 dervish | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dervish | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dervish | det |
| 5 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 given | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 dervish | acl:relcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 given | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 need | det |
| 14 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ointment | case |
| 16 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 need | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | present · perfect | a dervish | the world | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Source | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a dervish | no need of ointment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 3 | need | ointment | nom need «state 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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