The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 58
The water was so clear that they could see the four kinds of fish swimming about in it.
Who acts: water, mountains, fish · What happens: be, see, swim · To what, where: four kinds
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 (water, mountains, fish), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clear | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clear | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 clear | advmod |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 clear | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kinds | det |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 kinds | nummod |
| 12 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fish | case |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kinds | nmod |
| 15 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fish | acl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swimming | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the water | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | could | mountains = mountain | the four kinds of fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | fish not said here | about water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about it=Trajectory |
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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