The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 95
Break off a twig, and plant it in your garden, and it will take root, and grow into a magnificent tree."
Who acts: you, it · What happens: break off, plant, take, grow · To what, where: twig, garden, root, magnificent 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 (you, 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 | Break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Break | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 twig | det |
| 4 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Break | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 plant | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 plant | cc |
| 7 | plant | plant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Break | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 plant | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 garden | nmod:poss |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plant | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Break | conj |
| 17 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grow | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grow | cc |
| 20 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Break | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 23 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tree | amod |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grow | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Break | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | imperative | you not said here | a twig | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twig=Patient | ||||
| 2 | plant | infinitive | you not said here | twig | your garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in garden=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | future | it | root | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | infinitive | you not said here | into a magnificent tree result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result |
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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