The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 6
But now we must return to the kitchen, which we shall find in great confusion.
Who acts: we · What happens: return, find · To what, where: kitchen, great confusion
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 return | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 return | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 return | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 return | aux |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 kitchen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kitchen | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 return | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 find | obj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 kitchen | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 confusion | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 confusion | amod |
| 16 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | must | we | now | to the kitchen result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kitchen=Result | |||
| 2 | find | shall | we | the kitchen | great confusion | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
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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