The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 60
I should like to be a witness of your interview with the genius."
Who acts: I, your · What happens: like, be, interview · To what, where: witness
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, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 witness | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 witness | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 witness | det |
| 7 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 like | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 interview | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 interview | nmod:poss |
| 10 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 witness | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 genius | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 genius | det |
| 13 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 interview | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a witness | of your interview with the genius | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | interview | your | with the genius | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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