The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 98
Then I shall begin, and I hope by this means to deliver the people from the terror that reigns over them."
Who acts: I, this, terror · What happens: begin, hope, mean, deliver, reign · To what, where: people, terror · 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 (I, this, terror), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 begin | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 begin | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 begin | aux |
| 4 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hope | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hope | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hope | nsubj |
| 8 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 begin | parataxis |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 means | mark |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hope | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 deliver | mark |
| 13 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 means | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 deliver | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 terror | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 terror | det |
| 18 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deliver | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 reigns | nsubj |
| 20 | reigns | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 terror | acl:relcl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reigns | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begin | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | shall | I | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | deliver not said to happen | to-infinitive | the people | the terror | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent people=Theme from terror=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | reign | present | the terror | over People | 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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