The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 73
I have been in this place now for five and twenty years, and you are the first man who has visited me."
Who acts: I, you, first man · What happens: be, visit · To what, where: place, first man, me
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 (I, you, first man), 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 | 6 place | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 place | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 five | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 five | case |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 twenty | cc |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 five | conj |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 place | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 man | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 man | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 man | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | appos |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 visited | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 visited | aux |
| 22 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 visited | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | this place | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | you | the first man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | visit | present · perfect | the first man | me | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-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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