The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 29
"I hope," answered he, "that your life may be long, but as for me, all is finished.
Who acts: I, that · What happens: hope, answer, be, finish · To what, where: Heaven, all · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 long | nsubj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 long | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 long | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 long | cop |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 finished | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 finished | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 me | case |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 finished | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 me | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 finished | aux:pass |
| 24 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hope | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Heaven | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | may | that | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | finish in a quote | present · passive | all | as me | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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