The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 28
I trust that you may be spared to me for many years."
Who acts: I · What happens: trust, spare · To what, where: you, me
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 trust | nsubj |
| 2 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 spared | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 spared | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 spared | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spared | aux:pass |
| 7 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 trust | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 spared | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spared | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trust | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spare | may · passive | you | me | year | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/28/