The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 110
Do not sacrifice any calf but this."
Who acts: you · What happens: not sacrifice · To what, where: calf
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sacrifice | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 sacrifice | advmod |
| 3 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 calf | det |
| 5 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sacrifice | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 this | cc |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 calf | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sacrifice | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sacrifice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sacrifice | imperative · do-support | you not said here | any calf | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent calf=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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