The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 52
I am sure we should find their company diverting."
Who acts: I, we · What happens: be, find, divert · To what, where: company
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 (I, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 company | nmod:poss |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | diverting | divert | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 find | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | should | we | eyebrows's company | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Topic | ||||
| 3 | divert | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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