The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 97
"My lord," he said, "you behold in me a poor man who only lives by the help of persons as rich and as generous as you."
Who acts: lord, you, poor man · What happens: say, behold, live, help · To what, where: poor man, persons · 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 (lord, you, poor man), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 behold | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 behold | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 behold | nsubj |
| 11 | behold | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 behold | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 behold | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lives | nsubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 lives | advmod |
| 19 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 help | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 help | det |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 persons | case |
| 24 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 help | nmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 rich | case |
| 26 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lives | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 generous | cc |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 generous | advmod |
| 29 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lives | conj |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 generous | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | behold in a quote | present | you | a poor man | in My lord = lord | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | a poor man | by the help of persons; as rich | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by help=Location | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | persons | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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