The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 14
"Prince, be not uneasy; hospitality and humanity are practised as widely in Bengal as they are in Persia.
Who acts: Prince, hospitality · What happens: not be, practise, be · To what, where: hospitality, Bengal
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hospitality), 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 uneasy | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 uneasy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 uneasy | punct |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 uneasy | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 uneasy | advmod |
| 6 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 practised | punct |
| 8 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 practised | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 humanity | cc |
| 10 | humanity | humanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hospitality | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 practised | aux:pass |
| 12 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 uneasy | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 widely | case |
| 14 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 12 practised | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Bengal | case |
| 16 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 practised | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Persia | case |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Persia | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Persia | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Persia | case |
| 21 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 practised | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 uneasy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | infinitive | Prince | uneasy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | practise in a quote | present · passive | hospitality and humanity | Bengal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | hospitality | as Persia | tree rules |
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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