The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 131
"Take these fish and carry them to the Sultan, who will give you more money for them than you have ever had in your life.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, carry, give, have · To what, where: fish, misgivings, Sultan, more money, you, life
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carry | cc |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Sultan | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Take | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 money | amod |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 money | nmod |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | aux |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 had | advmod |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 give | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | this fish | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | present | you not said here | misgivings = misgiving | the Sultan | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to sultan=Destination | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | more money | you | for misgivings = misgiving | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient money=Theme for they=Asset | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present · perfect | you | your life | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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