The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 32
All I understand is, that neither it nor the Singing Tree is a native of this country."
Who acts: I, All, Singing Tree · What happens: understand, be · To what, where: native
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 (I, All, Singing Tree), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 neither | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 neither | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 neither | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 neither | nsubj |
| 7 | neither | neither | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 neither | obj |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 native | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tree | det |
| 11 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tree | compound |
| 12 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 native | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 native | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 native | det |
| 15 | native | native | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 neither | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 native | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 native | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 native | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | All | neither property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Singing Tree | a native | of this country | 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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