The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 110
For a starving man, you seem to have a very small appetite."
Who acts: you · What happens: starve, seem, have · To what, where: small appetite
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 (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | starving | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seem | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 seem | nsubj |
| 7 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seem | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 appetite | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 small | advmod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 appetite | amod |
| 13 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seem | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | seem | present | you | for a starving man | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | you not said here | a small appetite | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient |
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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