The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 13
Have you forgotten that you came here in search of the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water, and the black stones that were heaped up along the road?
Who acts: you · What happens: forget, come, heap up, search · To what, where: Golden Water, search, black stones, road, Talking Bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 forgotten | nsubj |
| 3 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | ccomp |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 search | case |
| 9 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Bird | det |
| 12 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bird | compound |
| 13 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 search | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tree | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tree | det |
| 16 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tree | compound |
| 17 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bird | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Water | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Water | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Water | det |
| 21 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Water | amod |
| 22 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forgotten | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heaped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 heaped | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stones | det |
| 26 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stones | amod |
| 27 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 heaped | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 heaped | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 heaped | aux:pass |
| 30 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 forgotten | advcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 heaped | compound:prt |
| 32 | along | along | ADP | _ | 34 road | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 road | det |
| 34 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heaped | obl |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · perfect | you | the Golden Water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | you | search of the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree; here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 3 | heap up | past · passive | the black stones | the road | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme along road=Destination | ||||
| 4 | search | the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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