The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 43

What are the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree to me in comparison with you, passionately though I long for them!"

Who acts: Talking Bird · What happens: be · To what, where: me, comparison

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 (Talking Bird), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	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	1 What	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Tree	cc
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	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 What	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 comparison	case
13	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 comparison	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
17	passionately	passionately	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 long	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 long	nsubj
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 What	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 long	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree		me	comparison with you		long 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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