The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 16
If you fly, we conquer, and we are content."
Who acts: you, we · What happens: fly, conquer, be · To what, where: content
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, we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 fly | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquer | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 conquer | nsubj |
| 6 | conquer | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 content | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 content | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 content | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 content | cop |
| 11 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conquer | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 conquer | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 conquer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | conquer | present | we | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | we | content | 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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