The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 42
It will not be long before I am led to jail as a murderer."
Who acts: Ass, I · What happens: not be, lead, jail · To what, where: I
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 (Ass, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 long | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 long | cop |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 led | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 led | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | aux:pass |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 long | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 jail | mark |
| 11 | jail | jail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 led | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 murderer | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 murderer | det |
| 14 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jail | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | Ass | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | present · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | jail | to-infinitive | I not said here | as a murderer | vn confine-92 «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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