The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 8
It is not natural that the same ointment should have two such exactly opposite effects."
Who acts: It, same ointment · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: two such opposite effects
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 (It, same ointment), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 natural | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 natural | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 natural | advmod |
| 4 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ointment | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ointment | amod |
| 8 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 natural | csubj |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 effects | nummod |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 effects | amod |
| 13 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 14 opposite | advmod |
| 14 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 effects | amod |
| 15 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 natural | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 natural | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | It | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | should | the same ointment | two such opposite effects | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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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