The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 82
And as to the pearls, if you go at dawn to-morrow and dig at the foot of the first tree in the park, on the right hand, you will find as many as you want."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, dig, find, want · To what, where: morrow, many, right hand
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 pearls | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pearls | det |
| 5 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 as | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 as | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dawn | case |
| 11 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 morrow | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dig | cc |
| 16 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foot | det |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dig | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 tree | amod |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foot | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 park | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 park | det |
| 26 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 hand | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hand | det |
| 30 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hand | amod |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hand | punct |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 find | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dig | advcl |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 many | advmod |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 find | obj |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 want | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 want | nsubj |
| 40 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 many | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | morrow | dawn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dig | present | you not said here | at the foot of the first tree in the park | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | future | you | many | the right hand | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | |||
| 4 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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