The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 40
They pronounced the olives good, and fresh that year.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: pronounce · To what, where: olives
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pronounced | nsubj |
| 2 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 olives | det |
| 4 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pronounced | obj |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pronounced | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fresh | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fresh | cc |
| 8 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pronounced | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fresh | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | past | merchants = merchant | the olives | good property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=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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