The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 5
"I shall kill you," repeated the genius, "as you have killed my son."
Who acts: merchant · What happens: kill, repeat · To what, where: you, genius, son · 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), 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 | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 genius | det |
| 10 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | aux |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 repeated | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | shall | the merchant = merchant | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | the genius | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | my son | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer son=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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