The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 3
"My lord," replied the merchants, "however much care is taken to preserve them, they never last beyond the third year.
Who acts: lord, merchants · What happens: reply, take, preserve, not last · To what, where: merchants, much care · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lord, merchants), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchants | det |
| 8 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 11 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 care | amod |
| 13 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 preserve | mark |
| 17 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taken | xcomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 preserve | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 last | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 last | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 last | advmod |
| 22 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | conj |
| 23 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 year | det |
| 25 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 year | amod |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 last | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My lord | the merchants | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent merchant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present · passive | much care | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | preserve in a quote | to-infinitive | merchants = merchant | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | not last in a quote | present | merchants = merchant | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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