The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 36
Take me to the Talking Bird."
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: me, 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), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Bird | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bird | det |
| 5 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bird | compound |
| 6 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | me | the Talking Bird | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to bird=Destination |
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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