The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 88
Though a father, I am also your subject."
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: subject
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 | Though | though | ADP | _ | 3 father | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 subject | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 subject | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 subject | cop |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 subject | advmod |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 subject | nmod:poss |
| 9 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 subject | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | your subject | though a father | 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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