The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 15
What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life--what have I done to deserve so hard a fate?"
Who acts: Sindbad, you, I · What happens: do, give, deserve · To what, where: pleasant life, Sindbad, fate
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad, you, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 done | obj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 life | det |
| 11 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 done | obj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 life | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 deserve | mark |
| 19 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | advcl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 hard | advmod |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 deserve | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fate | det |
| 23 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deserve | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | Sindbad | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | give | should | you | this pleasant life | Sindbad | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient life=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | I | this pleasant life | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | deserve | to-infinitive | I not said here | a fate | hard 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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