The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 59
Your messenger has only to follow the road that passes by your house, for twenty days, and at the end of that time, he is to ask the first person he meets for the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water."
Who acts: messenger, road · What happens: have, follow, pass, be, meet · To what, where: road, end, first person
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 (messenger, road), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 messenger | nmod:poss |
| 2 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 follow | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 follow | mark |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 passes | nsubj |
| 10 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 road | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passes | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 days | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passes | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ask | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ask | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ask | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 end | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ask | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ask | cop |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 ask | mark |
| 30 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 follow | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 person | det |
| 32 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 person | amod |
| 33 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ask | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 meets | nsubj |
| 35 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 person | acl:relcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 Bird | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Bird | det |
| 38 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Bird | compound |
| 39 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 meets | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Tree | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Tree | det |
| 42 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Tree | compound |
| 43 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Bird | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Water | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Water | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Water | det |
| 47 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 Water | amod |
| 48 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Your messenger | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | Your messenger not said here | the road | the Golden Water obl | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass | present | the road | day | by your house | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by house=Location | |||
| 4 | is | present | messenger | at the end of that time | ask property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | meet | present | messenger | the first person not said here | for the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-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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