The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 54
"He is changed into a black stone," answered the dervish, "like all the rest who have gone on the same errand, and you will become one likewise if you are not more careful in following my directions."
Who acts: dervish, rest, you · What happens: change, answer, go, become, be, follow · To what, where: dervish, black stone, same errand, one, directions · 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 (dervish, rest, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux:pass |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dervish | det |
| 13 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rest | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 rest | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 rest | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 rest | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dervish | appos |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | aux |
| 22 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 rest | acl:relcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 errand | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 errand | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 errand | amod |
| 26 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gone | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 become | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 become | cc |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 become | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 become | aux |
| 31 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | conj |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 become | obj |
| 33 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 39 careful | advmod |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 careful | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 careful | nsubj |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 careful | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 more | advmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 careful | advmod |
| 39 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 become | xcomp |
| 40 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 41 following | mark |
| 41 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 careful | advcl |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 directions | nmod:poss |
| 43 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 following | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change in a quote | present · passive | dervish | into a black stone result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into stone=Result | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the dervish | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · perfect | all rest | the same errand | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location | ||||
| 4 | become in a quote | future | you | one | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | careful, likewise property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | follow in a quote | gerund | you not said here | my directions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme |
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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