The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 93
But the tree was tall and strong, and it was hopeless to think of uprooting it.
Who acts: tree, it · What happens: be, think, uproot · To what, where: Tree
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 (tree, it), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 tall | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tall | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tall | cop |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strong | cc |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tall | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hopeless | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hopeless | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hopeless | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hopeless | cop |
| 12 | hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tall | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hopeless | csubj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 uprooting | mark |
| 16 | uprooting | uproot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 think | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 uprooting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tree | tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the tree not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | it | hopeless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | uproot | gerund | Tree | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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