The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 106
I was aware that my son was building a tomb, and I think I can find the spot.
Who acts: I, son · What happens: be, build, think, find · To what, where: tomb, spot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son), 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 aware | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 aware | cop |
| 3 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 building | mark |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 building | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 building | aux |
| 8 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 aware | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tomb | det |
| 10 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 building | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 think | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 aware | parataxis |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 think | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spot | det |
| 19 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | past · progressive | my son | a tomb | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Product | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | can | I | the spot | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=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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