The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 57
No establishment will be better ordered than mine, and I shall take care always to be dressed in a manner suitable to my position.
Who acts: I · What happens: order, take, dress · To what, where: establishment, care, manner
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), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 establishment | det |
| 2 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 ordered | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ordered | aux:pass |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 mine | case |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ordered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ordered | conj |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 take | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 dressed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dressed | aux:pass |
| 18 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 take | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 manner | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 manner | det |
| 21 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dressed | obl |
| 22 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dressed | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 position | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 position | nmod:poss |
| 25 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 suitable | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | future · passive | no establishment | than mine | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | shall | I | care | always property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 3 | dress | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | a manner | suitable property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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