The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 87
Whatever the cost, I will obey you.
Who acts: I · What happens: obey · To what, where: you
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), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 obey | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cost | det |
| 3 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whatever | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whatever | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 obey | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 obey | aux |
| 7 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 obey | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | future | I | you | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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