The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 18
This poor man is so heavily weighed down that he is ready to drop."
Who acts: man · What happens: weigh down, be, drop · To what, where: poor man
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weighed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 weighed | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 weighed | advmod |
| 6 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 7 weighed | advmod |
| 7 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 weighed | compound:prt |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ready | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ready | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ready | cop |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weighed | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drop | mark |
| 14 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ready | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 weighed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 weighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh down | present · passive | this poor man | heavily property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | is | present | man | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drop | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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