The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 33
Only you appear to be mistaken about me, and I wish to set you right.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: appear, be, wish, set · To what, where: 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 (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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 appear | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 mistaken | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mistaken | cop |
| 6 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appear | advcl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 mistaken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wish | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appear | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 set | mark |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obj |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 set | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | about me; mistaken property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | right property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result |
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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