The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 87
"There is no pardon for a Christian who kills a Mussulman.
Who acts: pardon · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: Mussulman
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 (pardon), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 pardon | det |
| 5 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Christian | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Christian | det |
| 8 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pardon | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 kills | nsubj |
| 10 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pardon | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Mussulman | det |
| 12 | Mussulman | mussulman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kills | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no pardon for a Christian | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present | no pardon for a Christian | a Mussulman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussulman=Theme |
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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