The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 17
Is it not just that I should now enjoy a life of ease and tranquillity?"
Who acts: truthfulness · What happens: not be
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 (truthfulness), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 enjoy | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 enjoy | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 enjoy | advmod |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 enjoy | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 enjoy | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 enjoy | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 enjoy | aux |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 enjoy | advmod |
| 9 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 life | det |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enjoy | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ease | case |
| 13 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tranquillity | cc |
| 15 | tranquillity | tranquillity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ease | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoy | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | should · present | truthfulness | now | enjoy 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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