The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 63
I am determined to stop this barbarous practice of the Sultan's, and to deliver the girls and mothers from the awful fate that hangs over them."
Who acts: I, awful fate · What happens: be, stop, deliver, hang, practice · To what, where: barbarous practice, girls, awful fate, Sultan
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, awful fate), 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 | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 determined | cop |
| 3 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stop | mark |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 practice | det |
| 7 | barbarous | barbarous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 practice | amod |
| 8 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sultan | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sultan | det |
| 11 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 practice | nmod |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Sultan | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 deliver | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 deliver | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 deliver | mark |
| 16 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stop | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girls | det |
| 18 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 deliver | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mothers | cc |
| 20 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 girls | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 fate | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fate | det |
| 23 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fate | amod |
| 24 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deliver | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 hangs | nsubj |
| 26 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fate | acl:relcl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hangs | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | I not said here | this barbarous practice of the Sultan | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality practice=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | deliver | to-infinitive | I not said here | the girls and mothers | the awful fate | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme from fate=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | hang | present | the awful fate | over delight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location | ||||
| 5 | practice | the Sultan | nom practice «act transitive»: of=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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