The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 33
The law changes not, and all must submit to it!"
Who acts: law, all · What happens: not change, submit · To what, where: law
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 (law, all), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 law | det |
| 2 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changes | nsubj |
| 3 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 changes | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 submit | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 submit | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 submit | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 submit | aux |
| 9 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 changes | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 submit | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 submit | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 submit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | present | the law | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | submit | must | all | law | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme |
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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