The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 32
On the contrary, I understand your situation and can pity you.
Who acts: I · What happens: understand, pity · To what, where: situation, contrary, you
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 contrary | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 contrary | det |
| 3 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 understand | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrary | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 understand | nsubj |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 situation | nmod:poss |
| 8 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 understand | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pity | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pity | aux |
| 11 | pity | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 understand | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pity | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | I | your situation | the contrary | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer situation=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pity | can | I not said here | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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