The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 85
If you refuse, I swear that your head shall pay forfeit."
Who acts: you, I, head · What happens: refuse, swear, pay · To what, where: forfeit
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, I, head), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 refuse | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swear | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 refuse | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 swear | nsubj |
| 6 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 pay | mark |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pay | aux |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 swear | ccomp |
| 12 | forfeit | forfeit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swear | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swear | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay | shall | your head | forfeit | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forfeit=Asset |
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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