The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 54

And lastly the Golden Water, of which it is only needful to pour a single drop into a basin for it to shoot up into a fountain, which will never be exhausted, nor will the basin ever overflow."

Who acts: Water, basin · What happens: be, pour, shoot up, not exhaust, overflow · To what, where: single drop, basin, fountain

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 (Water, basin), 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	_	2 lastly	cc
2	lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Water	det
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Water	amod
5	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lastly	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 needful	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 needful	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 needful	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 needful	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 needful	advmod
12	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lastly	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pour	mark
14	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 needful	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 drop	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 drop	amod
17	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pour	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 basin	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 basin	det
20	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pour	obl
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 shoot	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shoot	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 shoot	mark
24	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pour	advcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 shoot	compound:prt
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 fountain	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fountain	det
28	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shoot	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 exhausted	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 exhausted	nsubj:pass
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 exhausted	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 exhausted	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 exhausted	aux:pass
34	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 fountain	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 overflow	punct
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	41 overflow	cc
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 overflow	aux
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 basin	det
39	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 overflow	nsubj
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 overflow	advmod
41	overflow	overflow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lastly	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lastly	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lastly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Water				needful property	tree rules
2	pour	to-infinitive	Water not said here	a single drop	a basin			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme into basin=Destination
3	shoot up	to-infinitive	Water		a fountain			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not exhaust	future · passive		a fountain				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	overflow	future	the basin			ever		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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