The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 111
"Wife," I answered, "I will not sacrifice this calf," and in spite of all her remonstrances, I remained firm.
Who acts: I · What happens: answer, not sacrifice, remain, spite · To what, where: calf, firm, spite, remonstrances · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wife | punct |
| 2 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wife | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sacrifice | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sacrifice | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sacrifice | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sacrifice | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 sacrifice | advmod |
| 12 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 calf | det |
| 14 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sacrifice | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sacrifice | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sacrifice | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 remained | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 spite | case |
| 19 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remained | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 remonstrances | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 remonstrances | det:predet |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 remonstrances | nmod:poss |
| 23 | remonstrances | remonstrance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spite | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spite | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 remained | nsubj |
| 26 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 27 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remained | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not sacrifice in a quote | future | I | this calf | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent calf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | I | firm | spite of cow's remonstrances | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme firm=Attribute | |||
| 4 | spite | cow's remonstrances | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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