The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 56
I shall never allow my wife to leave her rooms on any pretext whatever without my permission, and my visits to her will be marked by all the ceremony calculated to inspire respect.
Who acts: I, wife, ceremony, my · What happens: not allow, leave, mark, calculate, inspire, permit · To what, where: wife, rooms, pretext, visits, ceremony, respect
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 (I, wife, ceremony, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 allow | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 allow | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 allow | advmod |
| 4 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allow | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allow | xcomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 pretext | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 pretext | det |
| 13 | pretext | pretext | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 14 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 pretext | appos |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 permission | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 permission | nmod:poss |
| 17 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whatever | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 marked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 marked | cc |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 visits | nmod:poss |
| 21 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 26 marked | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 marked | nmod:poss |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 marked | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 marked | aux:pass |
| 26 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 allow | parataxis |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 ceremony | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 ceremony | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ceremony | det |
| 30 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marked | obl |
| 31 | calculated | calculate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 ceremony | acl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 inspire | mark |
| 33 | inspire | inspire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 calculated | xcomp |
| 34 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 inspire | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | shall | I | my wife | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer wife=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | my wife not said here | wife's rooms | any pretext | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent room=Theme on pretext=Location | |||
| 3 | mark | future · passive | all ceremony | my visits | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | calculate | participle | all ceremony not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | inspire | to-infinitive | respect | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus respect=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | permit | my | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | visit | my | nom visit «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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