The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 69

In his convent there is a black cat which has a tiny white tip to its tail.

Who acts: black cat · What happens: be, have · To what, where: convent, tiny white tip

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black cat), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 convent	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 convent	nmod:poss
3	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cat	det
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cat	amod
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cat	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tip	det
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tip	amod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tip	amod
14	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 tail	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tip	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a black cat			dervish's convent; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in convent=Location
2	have	present	a black cat	a tiny white tip				to cat's tail	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Patient

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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