The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 62
Suddenly the prince said to me, "Cousin, we have no time to lose; be so kind as to conduct this lady to a certain spot, where you will find a dome-like tomb, newly built.
Who acts: prince, we, you · What happens: say, have, lose, be, conduct, find · To what, where: Cousin, me, lady, certain spot, like tomb · 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 (prince, we, you), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cousin | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cousin | punct |
| 9 | Cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lose | mark |
| 16 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 kind | punct |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 kind | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 kind | advmod |
| 20 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 have | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 conduct | mark |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 conduct | mark |
| 23 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 kind | xcomp |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 lady | det |
| 25 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 conduct | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 spot | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 spot | det |
| 28 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 spot | amod |
| 29 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 conduct | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 find | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 find | advmod |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 find | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 find | aux |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 kind | parataxis |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 tomb | det |
| 36 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 like | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 dome | punct |
| 38 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tomb | amod |
| 39 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 find | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 built | punct |
| 41 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 42 built | advmod |
| 42 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 find | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | Cousin | me | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | we | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | conduct in a quote | to-infinitive | this lady | a certain spot | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme to spot=Destination | ||||
| 6 | find in a quote | future | you | a like tomb | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Topic | ||||
| 7 | build in a quote | participle | you not said here | newly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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