The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 68
You ought to know by this time what it means to be the sultan's bride!"
Who acts: You, it · What happens: know, mean, be · To what, where: time, bride · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, it), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 know | mark |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 means | obj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bride | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bride | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sultan | det |
| 14 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bride | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 sultan | case |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | ccomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | ought | You | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | it | this time | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sultan's bride | 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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