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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 56

"Do you see that mountain?" asked the king, pointing to a huge mass that towered into the sky about three leagues from Schiraz; "go and bring me the leaf of a palm that grows at the foot."

Who acts: you, king, huge mass, palm · What happens: see, ask, point, tower, go, bring · To what, where: mountain, huge mass, three leagues, sky, leaf, king · 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 (you, king, huge mass, palm), 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

punctauxnsubjccompdetobjpunctpunctdetobjpunctadvclcasedetamodoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetobladvmodnummodobjcasenmodpunctpunctccompccconjobjdetobjcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctpunctroot"PUNCTDoAUXyouPRONseeVERBthatDETmountainNOUN?PUNCT"PUNCTaskedVERBtheDETkingNOUN,PUNCTpointingVERBtoADPaDEThugeADJmassNOUNthatPRONtoweredVERBintoADPtheDETskyNOUNaboutADVthreeNUMleaguesNOUNfromADPSchirazPROPN;PUNCT"PUNCTgoVERBandCCONJbringVERBmePRONtheDETleafNOUNofADPaDETpalmNOUNthatPRONgrowsVERBatADPtheDETfootNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_4 seepunct
2DodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 seeaux
3youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs4 seensubj
4seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf9 askedccomp
5thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 mountaindet
6mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing4 seeobj
7??PUNCT_4 seepunct
8""PUNCT_4 seepunct
9askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 kingdet
11kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing9 askedobj
12,,PUNCT_13 pointingpunct
13pointingpointVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 askedadvcl
14totoADP_17 masscase
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 massdet
16hugehugeADJDegree=Pos17 massamod
17massmassNOUNNumber=Sing13 pointingobl
18thatthatPRONPronType=Rel19 towerednsubj
19toweredtowerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 massacl:relcl
20intointoADP_22 skycase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 skydet
22skyskyNOUNNumber=Sing19 toweredobl
23aboutaboutADV_24 threeadvmod
24threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card25 leaguesnummod
25leaguesleagueNOUNNumber=Plur19 toweredobj
26fromfromADP_27 Schirazcase
27SchirazSchirazPROPNNumber=Sing25 leaguesnmod
28;;PUNCT_30 gopunct
29""PUNCT_30 gopunct
30gogoVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin9 askedccomp
31andandCCONJ_32 bringcc
32bringbringVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin30 goconj
33meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs32 bringobj
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 leafdet
35leafleafNOUNNumber=Sing32 bringobj
36ofofADP_38 palmcase
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 palmdet
38palmpalmNOUNNumber=Sing35 leafnmod
39thatthatPRONPronType=Rel40 growsnsubj
40growsgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin38 palmacl:relcl
41atatADP_43 footcase
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 footdet
43footfootNOUNNumber=Sing40 growsobl
44..PUNCT_30 gopunct
45""PUNCT_30 gopunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1see in a quotepresent · do-supportyouthat mountainvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus
2ask speech: askpastthe kingvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3pointgerundthe king not said herea huge massvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mass=Recipient
4towerpasta huge massthree leaguesthe skyfrom Schirazvn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location league=Theme
5go in a quoteinfinitivevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6bring in a quoteinfinitivethe leaf of a palmthe king = kingvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination leaf=Theme
7grow in a quotepresenta palmthe footvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location

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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