The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 5
If some one has to suffer, it must be me!
Who acts: one, patience · What happens: have, suffer, be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, patience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1641): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 has | mark |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 me | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 suffer | mark |
| 6 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 has | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 me | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 me | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 me | cop |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | some one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | suffer | to-infinitive | some one not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | must | patience | me | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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