The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 94
First repeating some magic words over it, she dashed it into my face saying, "If you are only a monkey by enchantment, resume the form of the man you were before."
Who acts: shout, you · What happens: repeat, dash, say, be, resume, form · To what, where: magic words, water, face, monkey, form, man · 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 (shout, you), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 repeating | advmod |
| 2 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 dashed | advcl |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 words | det |
| 4 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 repeating | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 words | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 repeating | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dashed | nsubj |
| 10 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dashed | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dashed | obl |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dashed | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 monkey | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 monkey | punct |
| 18 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 monkey | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 monkey | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 monkey | cop |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 monkey | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 monkey | det |
| 23 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 enchantment | case |
| 25 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 monkey | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 resume | punct |
| 27 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 saying | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 form | det |
| 29 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resume | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 man | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 form | nmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 before | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 before | cop |
| 35 | before | before | ADV | _ | 32 man | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 resume | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 resume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | gerund | shout not said here | some magic words | water | first property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | dash | past | shout | water | into my face result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into face=Result | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | shout not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | a monkey | by enchantment | tree rules | |||
| 5 | resume in a quote | infinitive | the form of the man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | you | the man not said here | before property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | form in a quote | the man | nom form «communication 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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