The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 20
"Accursed genie!" replied Maimoune, "what harm can you do me?
Who acts: Maimoune, harm · What happens: accurs, reply, do · To what, where: genie, Maimoune · 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 (Maimoune, harm), 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 | _ | 2 Accursed | punct |
| 2 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 3 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Accursed | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Accursed | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Accursed | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 replied | advcl |
| 11 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | iobj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accurs in a quote | participle | genie | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | Maimoune | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | harm | Maimoune | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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