The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 74
Ah, if you do not fear death, fear at any rate the anguish you would cause me."
Who acts: you · What happens: not fear, cause · To what, where: death, rate, me
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), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 fear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 fear | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fear | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fear | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fear | advmod |
| 7 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fear | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fear | punct |
| 10 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 death | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 rate | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 rate | det |
| 13 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fear | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 anguish | det |
| 15 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fear | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 cause | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cause | aux |
| 18 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 anguish | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 cause | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fear | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fear | present · do-support | you | death and fear | any rate | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cause | would | you | me | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition i=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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