The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 103
Be she fair or frightful, clever or stupid, good or bad, I must marry her, and am left no choice in the matter.
Who acts: sovereign, I · What happens: be, marry, leave · To what, where: sovereign, choice, matter
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sovereign, 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fair | cop |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clever | csubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 frightful | cc |
| 5 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fair | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 clever | punct |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 stupid | cc |
| 9 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clever | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clever | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 bad | cc |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 good | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 marry | aux |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 clever | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 left | cc |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux:pass |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 marry | advcl |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 choice | det |
| 24 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 matter | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 matter | det |
| 27 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | sovereign | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | sovereign not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | marry | must | I | sovereign | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | present · passive | I not said here | no choice | the matter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: choice=Theme in matter=Location |
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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