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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pointing | punct |
| 13 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 mass | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mass | det |
| 16 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mass | amod |
| 17 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pointing | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 towered | nsubj |
| 19 | towered | tower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mass | acl:relcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 sky | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sky | det |
| 22 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 towered | obl |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 three | advmod |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 leagues | nummod |
| 25 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 towered | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Schiraz | case |
| 27 | Schiraz | Schiraz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 leagues | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bring | cc |
| 32 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 bring | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 leaf | det |
| 35 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bring | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 palm | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 palm | det |
| 38 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leaf | nmod |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 grows | nsubj |
| 40 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 palm | acl:relcl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 foot | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 foot | det |
| 43 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 grows | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | that mountain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | point | gerund | the king not said here | a huge mass | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mass=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | tower | past | a huge mass | three leagues | the sky | from Schiraz | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location league=Theme | ||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | infinitive | the leaf of a palm | the king = king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination leaf=Theme | ||||
| 7 | grow in a quote | present | a palm | the foot | vn 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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