The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 52

The man is no more dead than I am," he said; "watch me."

Who acts: man · What happens: not be, say, watch · To what, where: me · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
4	no	no	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 dead	amod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 am	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 am	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 am	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 am	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 watch	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 watch	punct
16	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 watch	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the man		dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	watch	infinitive		me		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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