The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 55
Bring them in, then," said she, "but make them understand that they are not to make remarks about what does not concern them, and be sure to make them read the inscription over the door."
Who acts: you, Zobeida · What happens: bring in, say, make, understand, not be, do · To what, where: Zobeida, concern, inscription, door · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Zobeida), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 1 Bring | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Bring | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | conj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 she | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 make | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 understand | advcl |
| 22 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 what | case |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 remarks | nmod |
| 25 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 concern | advmod |
| 27 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 does | obj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 does | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sure | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sure | cc |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 sure | cop |
| 32 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bring | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 make | mark |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 sure | xcomp |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 make | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 inscription | det |
| 38 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 read | obj |
| 39 | over | over | ADP | _ | 41 door | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 door | det |
| 41 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 read | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in | imperative | you not said here | Zobeida | then | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Asset | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | Zobeida | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | understand | infinitive | Zobeida not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not is | present | Zobeida | make property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | present | concern | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is | infinitive | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | Zobeida | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | read | infinitive | Zobeida not said here | the inscription | the door | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic |
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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