The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 84
We shall soon see which of us is in the right."
Who acts: We · What happens: see, be · 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 right | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 right | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 right | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 right | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 right | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 right | det |
| 11 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | shall | We | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | of the right | tree rules |
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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