The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 73
"And you," retorted the lion, "have not feared to break our treaty that engaged solemnly we should never interfere with each other."
Who acts: you, treaty, we · What happens: retort, not fear, break, engage, not interfere · To what, where: lion, treaty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, treaty, we), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 retorted | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 retorted | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 retorted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 retorted | punct |
| 6 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lion | det |
| 8 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 retorted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feared | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 feared | punct |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 feared | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 feared | advmod |
| 13 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 retorted | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 break | mark |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 feared | xcomp |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 treaty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 break | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 engaged | nsubj |
| 19 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 treaty | acl:relcl |
| 20 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 19 engaged | advmod |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 interfere | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 interfere | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 interfere | advmod |
| 24 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 engaged | parataxis |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 each | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 24 interfere | obl |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 each | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 retorted | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 retorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retort speech: other | past | you | the lion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lion=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not fear in a quote | present · perfect | you not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | break in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | our treaty | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treaty=Patient | ||||
| 4 | engage in a quote | past | our treaty | solemnly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not interfere in a quote | should | we | with each | 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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