The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 26
Supposing seven years have passed without news of Ali Cogia, he need not be dead for all that, and may come back any day.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: suppose, pass, not be, come back · To what, where: Supposing seven years
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 (Ali), 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 | Supposing | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 years | amod |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 news | case |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ali | case |
| 9 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 news | nmod |
| 10 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ali | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dead | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dead | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dead | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 dead | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dead | cop |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 dead | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 all | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pass | present · perfect · passive | Supposing seven years | without news of Ali | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | Ali | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come back | may | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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