The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 140
But when I have related it, will you grant me also the third part of the merchant's punishment?"
Who acts: I, you, merchant · What happens: relate, grant, punish · To what, where: story, me
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, you, merchant), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 grant | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 related | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 related | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 related | aux |
| 5 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 grant | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 related | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 related | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grant | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | nsubj |
| 10 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | obj |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 part | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grant | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 punishment | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 merchant | det |
| 18 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 merchant | case |
| 20 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present · perfect | I | story | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grant | future | you | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | punish | the merchant | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=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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