The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 12
Let us go into the gardens, which I am sure are no less beautiful than the rooms."
Who acts: you, us, I, gardens · What happens: let, go, be · To what, where: us, gardens
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, I, gardens), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 gardens | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gardens | det |
| 6 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 beautiful | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 which | acl:relcl |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 less | advmod |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gardens | acl:relcl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 rooms | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rooms | det |
| 18 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 beautiful | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | us not said here | the gardens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the gardens | than the rooms; beautiful, less property | tree rules |
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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