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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

nsubjauxpunctobjpunctmarknmod:possnsubjcopoblpunctdetapposcasedetnmodpunctdetamodappospunctadvmodparataxiscasedetnummodamodoblnsubjcopadvmodacl:relclpunctmarkdetnsubjcopdetxcompadvmodadvmoddetamodcompoundconjpunctrootYouPRONmustAUXknowVERB,PUNCTsireNOUN,PUNCTthatSCONJmyPRONfatherNOUNwasAUXMahmoudPROPN,PUNCTtheDETkingNOUNofADPthisDETcountryNOUN,PUNCTtheDETBlackADJIslesPROPN,PUNCTsoADVcalledVERBfromADPtheDETfourNUMlittleADJmountainsNOUNwhichPRONwereAUXonceADVislandsNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJtheDETcapitalNOUNwasAUXtheDETplaceNOUNwhereADVnowADVtheDETgreatADJlakeNOUNliesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs3 knownsubj
2mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin3 knowaux
3knowknowVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
4,,PUNCT_5 sirepunct
5siresireNOUNNumber=Sing3 knowobj
6,,PUNCT_11 Mahmoudpunct
7thatthatSCONJ_11 Mahmoudmark
8mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 fathernmod:poss
9fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing11 Mahmoudnsubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 Mahmoudcop
11MahmoudMahmoudPROPNNumber=Sing3 knowobl
12,,PUNCT_14 kingpunct
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 kingdet
14kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing11 Mahmoudappos
15ofofADP_17 countrycase
16thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem17 countrydet
17countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing14 kingnmod
18,,PUNCT_21 Islespunct
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Islesdet
20BlackBlackADJDegree=Pos21 Islesamod
21IslesIslePROPNNumber=Plur11 Mahmoudappos
22,,PUNCT_24 calledpunct
23sosoADV_24 calledadvmod
24calledcallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 knowparataxis
25fromfromADP_29 mountainscase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 mountainsdet
27fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card29 mountainsnummod
28littlelittleADJDegree=Pos29 mountainsamod
29mountainsmountainNOUNNumber=Plur24 calledobl
30whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel33 islandsnsubj
31werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 islandscop
32onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult33 islandsadvmod
33islandsislandNOUNNumber=Plur29 mountainsacl:relcl
34,,PUNCT_40 placepunct
35whilewhileSCONJ_40 placemark
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 capitaldet
37capitalcapitalNOUNNumber=Sing40 placensubj
38wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin40 placecop
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 placedet
40placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing24 calledxcomp
41wherewhereADVPronType=Rel46 liesadvmod
42nownowADVPronType=Dem46 liesadvmod
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 liesdet
44greatgreatADJDegree=Pos46 liesamod
45lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing46 liescompound
46lieslieNOUNNumber=Plur40 placeconj
47..PUNCT_3 knowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowmustYousirevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sire=Stimulus
2is apastmy fatherMahmoudtree rules
3callparticiplethe four little mountainsvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from mountain=Source
4is apastthe four little mountainsislandsonce propertytree rules
5is apastthe capitalthe place and the great lake liestree 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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