The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 86
You must know, sire, that my father was Mahmoud, the king of this country, the Black Isles, so called from the four little mountains which were once islands, while the capital was the place where now the great lake lies.
Who acts: You, father, four little mountains, capital · What happens: know, be, call · To what, where: sire, Mahmoud, four little mountains, islands, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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, father, four little mountains, capital), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sire | punct |
| 5 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mahmoud | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 Mahmoud | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Mahmoud | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Mahmoud | cop |
| 11 | Mahmoud | Mahmoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 king | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Mahmoud | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Isles | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Isles | det |
| 20 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Isles | amod |
| 21 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Mahmoud | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 called | advmod |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 know | parataxis |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 mountains | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mountains | det |
| 27 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 mountains | nummod |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mountains | amod |
| 29 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 called | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 islands | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 islands | cop |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 islands | advmod |
| 33 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 mountains | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 place | punct |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 40 place | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 capital | det |
| 37 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 place | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 place | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 place | det |
| 40 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 lies | advmod |
| 42 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 lies | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 lies | det |
| 44 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 lies | amod |
| 45 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 lies | compound |
| 46 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 place | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | You | sire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sire=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | my father | Mahmoud | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the four little mountains | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from mountain=Source | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the four little mountains | islands | once property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | past | the capital | the place and the great lake lies | 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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