The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 73

Birds sang in the trees, which were netted over to keep them always there.

Who acts: Birds · What happens: sing, net over, keep · To what, where: trees, Birds

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 (Birds), 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	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sang	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 netted	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 netted	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 netted	aux:pass
9	netted	net	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 trees	acl:relcl
10	over	over	ADV	_	9 netted	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 netted	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keep	obj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 there	advmod
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 keep	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Birds		the trees		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
2	net over	past · passive		the trees		over property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
3	keep	to-infinitive		Birds = bird			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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