The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 19
Summon also the Cadi, to learn his duty from the mouth of a child.
Who acts: you · What happens: summon, learn · To what, where: Cadi, duty, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:3119): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summon | summon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 1 Summon | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Cadi | det |
| 4 | Cadi | cadi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Summon | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 learn | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 learn | mark |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Summon | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 duty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mouth | det |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 child | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouth | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Summon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | imperative | you not said here | the Cadi | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadi=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | you not said here | Cadi's duty | the mouth of a child | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent duty=Topic from mouth=Source |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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