The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 23
You do not appear to lack wit, yet you do such actions as none but madmen could be capable of.
Who acts: You, none · What happens: not appear, lack, do, be · To what, where: wit, such actions
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, none), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 appear | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 appear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 appear | advmod |
| 4 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lack | mark |
| 6 | lack | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 appear | xcomp |
| 7 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lack | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 appear | parataxis |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 actions | amod |
| 13 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 capable | mark |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 capable | nsubj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 madmen | cc |
| 17 | madmen | madman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 none | conj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 capable | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 capable | cop |
| 20 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 do | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 capable | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not appear | present · do-support | You | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | lack | to-infinitive | You not said here | wit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you | such actions | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | could | none | capable property | 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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