The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 80
You must be a brute for her tears and prayers not to touch your heart.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, not touch · To what, where: brute, heart
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 brute | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 brute | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brute | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 brute | det |
| 5 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brute | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prayers | cc |
| 10 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tears | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 touch | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 touch | mark |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 brute | parataxis |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | You | a brute | for wife's tears and prayers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not touch | to-infinitive | your heart | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme |
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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