The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 18
If he only makes a mess of the paper, you may be sure I will punish him for it.
Who acts: man, you, I · What happens: make, be, punish, mess · To what, where: mess, man, paper
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 makes | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 makes | advmod |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mess | det |
| 6 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 paper | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paper | det |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mess | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 punish | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 punish | aux |
| 17 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 punish | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 punish | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make a condition, not said to happen | present | man | a mess of the paper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | punish | future | I | man | for paper | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for it=Theme | |||
| 4 | mess | the paper | nom mess «state transitive»: of=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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