The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 7
"My brother, you have probably heard that I am staffing with a caravan in a few days for Mecca.
Who acts: brother, Ali · What happens: hear, staff
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 (brother, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 7 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 8 heard | advmod |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 staffing | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 staffing | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 staffing | aux |
| 12 | staffing | staff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 heard | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 caravan | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 caravan | det |
| 15 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 staffing | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 days | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 days | amod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 staffing | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Mecca | case |
| 21 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 staffing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | My brother | probably property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | staff in a quote | present · progressive | Ali | day | with a caravan; for Mecca | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with caravan=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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