The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 53
But go you must; my honour and dignity demand it."
Who acts: you, honour, my · What happens: go, demand, honour · To what, where: dignity
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, honour, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 go | cc |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 must | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | parataxis |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 demand | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 honour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 demand | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dignity | cc |
| 9 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 honour | conj |
| 10 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 demand | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | present | my honour and dignity | dignity | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | honour | my | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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