The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 60
I am a king, and the son of a king, and will do you no hurt.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, do · To what, where: king, you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 king | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 king | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 son | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 king | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 hurt | det |
| 18 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a king | the son of a king nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | future | you | 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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