The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 110
Another time pray believe me when I assert anything."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: pray, believe, assert · To what, where: me, anything
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pray | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pray | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | iobj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 assert | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 assert | nsubj |
| 8 | assert | assert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | advcl |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 assert | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | time | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | assert | present | I | anything | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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