The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 126
One is that you will give him to me for a husband, and the other is that you will let me punish the woman who changed him into a calf."
Who acts: One, other, woman · What happens: be, punish, change · To what, where: son, woman
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 (One, other, woman), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 give | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 husband | det |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 let | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 let | cop |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 let | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 let | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 let | aux |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 punish | obj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 changed | nsubj |
| 27 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 woman | acl:relcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 changed | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 calf | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 calf | det |
| 31 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 changed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One | son | to me; for a husband; give property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | the other | let property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | punish | infinitive | the other not said here | the woman | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | ||||
| 4 | change | past | the woman | son | into a calf result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into calf=Result |
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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