The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 116
Send for some dealers in olives, and let us hear what they say!"
Who acts: you, us, olives · What happens: send, let, hear, say · To what, where: olives, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, olives), 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 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 dealers | case |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 dealers | det |
| 4 | dealers | dealer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Send | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 olives | case |
| 6 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Send | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Send | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 say | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hear | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | olives | for some dealers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in olive=Destination | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | infinitive | us not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | olives = olive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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