The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 29
So Selim began to translate: ‘Thou who mayest find this, praise Allah for his mercy.
Who acts: Selim, Thou · What happens: begin, translate, find, praise · To what, where: this, Allah
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Selim, Thou), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | Selim | Selim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 translate | mark |
| 5 | translate | translate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 8 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 find | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | parataxis |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 praise | punct |
| 14 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 find | conj |
| 15 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 praise | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 mercy | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 praise | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Selim | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | translate | to-infinitive | Selim not said here | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find | may | Thou | this | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 4 | praise | infinitive | Thou not said here | Allah | for Selim's mercy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent allah=Theme for mercy=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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