The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 140
"Do you know it is a whole year's journey from here?
Who acts: you, glad · What happens: know, be · To what, where: journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, glad), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 journey | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 journey | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 year | amod |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 year | case |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | ccomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 here | case |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | glad | a whole year's journey | year | 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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