The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 57
Most likely we shall never see you again, but if you have sufficient self-command perhaps we may yet look forward to a meeting."
Who acts: we, you · What happens: not see, have, look · To what, where: you, sufficient self command
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 (we, 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | parataxis |
| 14 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 command | amod |
| 15 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 command | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 self | punct |
| 17 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 look | advmod |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 look | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 look | aux |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 look | advmod |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | parataxis |
| 23 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 22 look | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 meeting | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 meeting | det |
| 26 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 look | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | shall | we | you | again | likely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | sufficient self command | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | may | we | yet | to a meeting; forward, perhaps property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to meeting=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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