The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 19
"Good Maimoune, swear to me by Allah to do me no harm, and on my side I will promise not to injure you."
Who acts: Good Maimoune, I · What happens: swear, do, promise, not injure · To what, where: me, harm, side, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Good Maimoune, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 swear | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Maimoune | amod |
| 3 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 swear | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 swear | punct |
| 5 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 swear | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Allah | case |
| 9 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 swear | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swear | advcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | iobj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 harm | det |
| 14 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 promise | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 promise | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 promise | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 promise | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 promise | aux |
| 22 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swear | conj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 injure | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 injure | mark |
| 25 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 promise | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 injure | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swear | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear in a quote | infinitive | Good Maimoune | me | by Allah | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Good Maimoune not said here | no harm | me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | future | I | my side | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not injure not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you | 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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