The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 35
Come, choose what sort of beasts you would like to hunt."
Who acts: you, sort · What happens: come, choose, like, hunt, sort · To what, where: beasts
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, sort), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 sort | det |
| 5 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 like | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beasts | case |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sort | nmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 choose | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hunt | mark |
| 12 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 like | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | choose | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | like | would | what sort of beasts | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hunt not said to happen | to-infinitive | what sort of beasts not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sort | beasts | nom sort «cognition 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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