The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 101
Never shall it be said that I have abandoned you, and I am sure that you, on your part, will never abandon me."
Who acts: I · What happens: not say, abandon, be, not abandon · To what, where: end, you, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | aux:pass |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 abandoned | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 abandoned | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 abandoned | aux |
| 9 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 abandoned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sure | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 part | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 part | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 part | nmod:poss |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sure | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 abandon | punct |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 abandon | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 abandon | advmod |
| 25 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 abandon | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 abandon | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 abandon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | shall · passive | end | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | abandon | present · perfect | I | you | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme you=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | that you; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not abandon | future | me | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme i=Source |
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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