The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 71
These are the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water."
What happens: be · To what, where: Talking Bird
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 Bird | det |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Bird | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bird | det |
| 4 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bird | compound |
| 5 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tree | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tree | det |
| 8 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tree | compound |
| 9 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bird | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Water | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Water | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Water | det |
| 13 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Water | amod |
| 14 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bird | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Water | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Water | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this Talking Bird and the Singing Tree | 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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