The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 10
Is it possible that you take me, my lord, for one of those miserable creatures who force their way into houses to beg for alms?
Who acts: meaning, you, miserable creatures · What happens: be, take, force, beg · To what, where: me, way, houses
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning, you, miserable creatures), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 possible | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 possible | nsubj |
| 3 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 possible | parataxis |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lord | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lord | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 me | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 take | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 creatures | case |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 creatures | det |
| 16 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creatures | amod |
| 17 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 force | nsubj |
| 19 | force | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 force | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 houses | case |
| 23 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 force | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 beg | mark |
| 25 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 force | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 alms | case |
| 27 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 beg | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | meaning | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | you | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | force | present | that miserable creatures | creatures's way | houses | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | |||
| 4 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | that miserable creatures not said here | for alms | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for alm=Topic |
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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