The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 29
Let us go once more and look at the Golden Water; and I am dying to see the Talking Bird."
Who acts: you, us, I · What happens: let, go, look, die, see · To what, where: us, Talking Bird
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), 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 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 look | cc |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Water | det |
| 10 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Water | amod |
| 11 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 dying | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dying | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 dying | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dying | aux |
| 16 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Let | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dying | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bird | det |
| 20 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bird | compound |
| 21 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | 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 | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | us not said here | at the Golden Water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | present · progressive | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Talking Bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
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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