The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 95
I will no longer conceal from you that these wild elephants have killed numbers of our slaves every year.
Who acts: I · What happens: conceal, kill · To what, where: wild elephants
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 (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 | 5 conceal | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 conceal | aux |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 conceal | advmod |
| 5 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 conceal | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 killed | mark |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 elephants | det |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 elephants | amod |
| 11 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 conceal | advcl |
| 14 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 slaves | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 17 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 numbers | nmod |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 conceal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | future | I | from you; long property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | kill | present · perfect · passive | this wild elephants | year | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer number=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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