The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 19
Surely the owners of such charming voices ought not to conceal themselves!"
Who acts: owners · What happens: not conceal · To what, where: owners
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 (owners), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 11 conceal | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 owners | det |
| 3 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 conceal | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 voices | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voices | amod |
| 6 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voices | compound |
| 7 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 owners | nmod |
| 8 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 conceal | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 conceal | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 conceal | mark |
| 11 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 conceal | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 conceal | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 conceal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not conceal | ought | the owners of such charming voices | owners = owner | surely property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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