The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 97
You alone have escaped the wiles of these animals, therefore you must be under the special protection of Heaven.
Who acts: You · What happens: escape, be · To what, where: wiles, special protection
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 escaped | nsubj |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 escaped | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 escaped | aux |
| 4 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wiles | det |
| 6 | wiles | wile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 escaped | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 animals | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 animals | det |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wiles | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 protection | punct |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 18 protection | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 protection | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 protection | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 protection | cop |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 protection | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 protection | det |
| 17 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 protection | amod |
| 18 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escaped | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Heaven | case |
| 20 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 protection | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | present · perfect | You | the wiles of this animals | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wile=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | must | you | the special protection | of Heaven; therefore property | tree rules |
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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