The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 53
And second, the Singing Tree, where every leaf is a song that is never silent.
Who acts: leaf, song · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: song
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, song), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Tree | cc |
| 2 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 Tree | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 second | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tree | det |
| 5 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tree | compound |
| 6 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 song | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 song | advmod |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 leaf | det |
| 10 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 song | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 song | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 song | det |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tree | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 silent | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 silent | cop |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 silent | advmod |
| 17 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 song | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | every leaf | a song | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | a song | silent property | 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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