The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 59
Consult the Talking Bird, who is wise and far-seeing, and let me hear what he says."
Who acts: you, Talking Bird, me, bird · What happens: consult, be, see, let, hear, say · To what, where: Talking Bird, me · 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, Talking Bird, me, bird), 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 | Consult | consult | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bird | det |
| 3 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bird | compound |
| 4 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Consult | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wise | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 wise | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wise | cop |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bird | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seeing | cc |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 seeing | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 far | punct |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 wise | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Consult | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 says | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 says | nsubj |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consult | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | imperative | you not said here | the Talking Bird | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Talking Bird | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | the Talking Bird not said here | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | infinitive | me not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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