The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 49
These fish signify some mystery I must clear up."
Who acts: fish, I · What happens: signify, clear up · To what, where: mystery
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 (fish, 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 signify | nsubj |
| 3 | signify | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 mystery | det |
| 5 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signify | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 clear | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 clear | aux |
| 8 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mystery | acl:relcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 clear | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 signify | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 signify | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | present | this fish | some mystery | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mystery=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clear up | must | I | some mystery not said here | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mystery=Source |
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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