The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 58
The hatchet and the cord shall be my present."
Who acts: hatchet · What happens: be · To what, where: present
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 (hatchet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hatchet | det |
| 2 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 present | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cord | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cord | det |
| 5 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hatchet | conj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 present | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 present | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 present | nmod:poss |
| 9 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 present | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | the hatchet and the cord | my present | tree rules |
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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