The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 49
As I am told that it was not the first time, and indeed that every day you are to be seen flogging and spurring your horse, I wish to come to the bottom of the matter.
Who acts: air, you, I · What happens: tell, not be, see, flog, spur, wish · To what, where: I, first time, you, horse, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, you, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 told | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 wish | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 time | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 time | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 time | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seen | cc |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 22 seen | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | conj |
| 23 | flogging | flog | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 seen | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 spurring | cc |
| 25 | spurring | spur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 flogging | conj |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 horse | nmod:poss |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spurring | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 wish | nsubj |
| 30 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 come | mark |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wish | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 bottom | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bottom | det |
| 35 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 matter | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 matter | det |
| 38 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bottom | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | air | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | present · passive | you | day | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | flog | gerund | you not said here | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | spur | gerund | you not said here | your horse | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 6 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the bottom of the matter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location |
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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