The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 57
By this means you will earn your living, and be able to wait till better times come.
Who acts: this, you, better times, your · What happens: mean, earn, be, wait, come, live · To what, where: living · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you, better times, your), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 earn | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 earn | aux |
| 6 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 means | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 living | nmod:poss |
| 8 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 earn | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 able | cc |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 earn | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wait | mark |
| 14 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | till | till | ADV | _ | 14 wait | advmod |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 times | amod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wait | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | earn | future | you | your living | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | you not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wait | to-infinitive | you not said here | till property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | present | better times | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | live | your | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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