The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 40
My son is a money-changer, and if you will follow me he will weigh them for you himself.
Who acts: son, you, hag · What happens: be, follow, weigh · To what, where: money changer, me, voice
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 (son, you, hag), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 changer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 changer | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changer | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 7 | changer | changer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 weigh | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 weigh | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 follow | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 follow | aux |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 weigh | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 weigh | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 weigh | aux |
| 17 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 changer | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 weigh | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 weigh | obl |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 weigh | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 changer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My son | a money changer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weigh | future | hag | voice | for you; hag obl:unmarked | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value |
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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