The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 90
It is very precious, and ought to be kept carefully in your treasury.
Who acts: majesty · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: treasury
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 (majesty), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 precious | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 precious | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 precious | advmod |
| 4 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 7 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 kept | aux |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 kept | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 kept | aux:pass |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 precious | conj |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 kept | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 treasury | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 14 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 precious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | majesty | precious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | ought · passive | majesty not said here | your treasury | carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in treasury=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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