The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 35
"I give you my word of honour," answered the merchant, "that I will come back without fail."
Who acts: merchant, my · What happens: give, answer, come back, word · To what, where: word, you, honour · 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 (merchant, my), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 word | nmod:poss |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 honour | case |
| 8 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 word | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 merchant | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 merchant | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 come | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 fail | case |
| 22 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present | the merchant = merchant | my word of honour | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient word=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the merchant | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come back in a quote | future | the merchant | without fail | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word in a quote | my | honour | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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