The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 104
How am I to know that she will not be proud, passionate, contemptuous, and recklessly extravagant, or that her disposition will in any way suit mine?"
Who acts: I, sovereign · What happens: know, not be, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, sovereign), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 proud | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 proud | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 proud | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 proud | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 proud | cop |
| 11 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 know | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 passionate | punct |
| 13 | passionate | passionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 proud | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 contemptuous | punct |
| 15 | contemptuous | contemptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 proud | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 extravagant | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 extravagant | cc |
| 18 | recklessly | recklessly | ADV | _ | 19 extravagant | advmod |
| 19 | extravagant | extravagant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 proud | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 will | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 will | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 will | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 disposition | nmod:poss |
| 24 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 will | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 suit | case |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 suit | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 suit | compound |
| 29 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 will | obl |
| 30 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 will | nsubj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | future | sovereign | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | sovereign not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | sovereign not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | sovereign not said here | recklessly property | 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.
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