The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 2

I know that they are to be found somewhere in these parts, but I am ignorant of the exact spot.

Who acts: I · What happens: know, find, be · To what, where: Bird, ignorant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux:pass
6	to	to	PART	_	8 found	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 know	ccomp
9	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 found	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 parts	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 parts	det
12	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 somewhere	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ignorant	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 ignorant	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ignorant	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ignorant	cop
17	ignorant	ignorant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 spot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spot	det
20	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spot	amod
21	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ignorant	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	find	present · passive		Bird	somewhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is a	present	I	ignorant	of the exact spot	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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