The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 85
I have likewise found out by their means, that she pretends before the servants great uneasiness as to your absence.
Who acts: I, daughter, your · What happens: find out, mean, pretend, absent · To what, where: great uneasiness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, daughter, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 3 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 found | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 means | mark |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 means | nmod:poss |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pretends | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 pretends | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pretends | nsubj |
| 12 | pretends | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | ccomp |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 servants | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 servants | det |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pretends | obl |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 uneasiness | amod |
| 17 | uneasiness | uneasiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pretends | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 absence | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 absence | nmod:poss |
| 21 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pretends | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | present · perfect | I | likewise property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | I not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pretend | present | daughter | great uneasiness | before the servants | as your absence | tree rules | ||
| 4 | absent | your | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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