The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 26
But for reasons of my own, which it is not necessary to mention, I desire you to leave the town, and never to come back."
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, mention, desire, leave, not come back · To what, where: you, town
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 desire | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 reasons | case |
| 3 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 desire | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 own | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 own | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reasons | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 necessary | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 necessary | nsubj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 necessary | expl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 necessary | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 necessary | advmod |
| 12 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 own | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 mention | mark |
| 14 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 necessary | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reasons | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 desire | nsubj |
| 17 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 desire | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 leave | mark |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 desire | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 come | cc |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 come | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 leave | conj |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 desire | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | necessary property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mention speech: other | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | desire | present | I | you | for reasons of my own | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | I not said here | the town | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not come back | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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