The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 62
Of course I shall give no signs of even hearing this speech, which will vex them mightily.
Who acts: I, signs, speech · What happens: give, hear, vex · To what, where: signs, speech
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, signs, speech), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 signs | det |
| 7 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 hearing | mark |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 hearing | advmod |
| 10 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 signs | acl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 speech | det |
| 12 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hearing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vex | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 vex | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 vex | aux |
| 16 | vex | vex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 speech | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 vex | obj |
| 18 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 16 vex | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | shall | I | no signs | of course | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | gerund | no signs not said here | this speech | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | vex | future | this speech | signs = sign | mightily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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