The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 92
Can't you see for yourself that it can belong to nobody but a Barmecide?" for the Barmecides were famed for their liberality and generosity.
Who acts: you, house · What happens: not see, belong, fame · To what, where: Barmecides
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, house), 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 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 see | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 belong | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 belong | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 belong | aux |
| 10 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 nobody | case |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 belong | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 Barmecide | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Barmecide | det |
| 15 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nobody | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 Barmecide | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Barmecide | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 famed | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Barmecides | det |
| 20 | Barmecides | Barmecide | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 famed | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 famed | aux:pass |
| 22 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 belong | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 liberality | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 liberality | nmod:poss |
| 25 | liberality | liberality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 famed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 generosity | cc |
| 27 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 liberality | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | you | for yourself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | belong | can | house | to nobody | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fame in a quote | past · passive | the Barmecides | for men's liberality and generosity | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/92/