The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 16
Have you ever heard of anyone who has suffered more, or had more narrow escapes than I have?
Who acts: you, I · What happens: hear, suffer, have · To what, where: more narrow escapes
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 anyone | case |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 suffered | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 suffered | aux |
| 9 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 suffered | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 escapes | amod |
| 15 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 escapes | amod |
| 16 | escapes | escape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 escapes | advcl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | you | ever | of anyone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of anyone=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | suffer | present · perfect | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | you not said here | more narrow escapes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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