The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 52
There is nobody here but the eunuch, who is your own servant, the little slave, and myself, yet you cover yourself with your veil and reproach me for having sent for you, as if I had committed a crime."
Who acts: nobody, you, I · What happens: be, cover, reproach, have, send, commit · To what, where: own servant, yourself, me, crime
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 (nobody, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 nobody | advmod |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 eunuch | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eunuch | det |
| 7 | eunuch | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nobody | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 servant | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 servant | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 servant | cop |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 servant | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 servant | amod |
| 13 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nobody | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slave | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 slave | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 slave | amod |
| 17 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 servant | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 myself | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 myself | cc |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 is | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cover | punct |
| 22 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 24 cover | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 cover | nsubj |
| 24 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 25 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 cover | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 veil | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 veil | nmod:poss |
| 28 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cover | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 reproach | cc |
| 30 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cover | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 reproach | obj |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 having | mark |
| 33 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 reproach | advcl |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 having | xcomp |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 sent | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 committed | punct |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 committed | mark |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 committed | mark |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 committed | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 committed | aux |
| 42 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 reproach | advcl |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 crime | det |
| 44 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 committed | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nobody | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | your own servant and the little slave | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cover | present | you | yourself | with your veil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Destination with veil=Theme | |||
| 4 | reproach | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | gerund | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | send | participle | you not said here | for you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | commit | past · perfect | I | a crime | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=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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