The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 96

The fish of four colours which are in it are the different races who lived in the town; the four hills are the four islands which give the name to my kingdom.

Who acts: four colours, different races, four hills, four islands · What happens: be, live, give · To what, where: different races, town, four islands, name, kingdom

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 (four colours, different races, four hills, four islands), 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 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 colours	case
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 colours	nummod
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fish	nmod
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 races	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 races	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	13 races	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 races	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 races	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 races	det
12	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 races	amod
13	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 colours	conj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 races	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 town	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 islands	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hills	det
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hills	nummod
22	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 islands	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 islands	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 islands	det
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 islands	nummod
26	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fish	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 give	nsubj
28	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 islands	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 name	det
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 kingdom	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 kingdom	nmod:poss
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is	present	four colours and the different races			the different races	tree rules
2	live	past	the different races			the town	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
3	is a	present	the four hills	the four islands			tree rules
4	give	present	the four islands	the name	my kingdom		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to kingdom=Recipient

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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