The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 67
Who knows whether their petitions may not be answered!"
Who acts: gifts · What happens: know, not answer, petition · To what, where: petitions · 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 (gifts), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 answered | mark |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 petitions | nmod:poss |
| 5 | petitions | petition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 answered | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | aux:pass |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | may · passive | gifts's petitions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | petition | gifts = gift | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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