The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 40
Sire," cried she angrily, "do not speak further of this or any other marriage or I will plunge this dagger in my breast and so escape from all these importunities."
Who acts: Sire, I · What happens: cry, not speak, plunge, escape · To what, where: Fatima, dagger, importunities · 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 (Sire, 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 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | obj |
| 6 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 4 cried | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 speak | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 speak | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 speak | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 speak | advmod |
| 11 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 12 | further | further | ADV | _ | 14 this | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 speak | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 marriage | cc |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 marriage | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 marriage | amod |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 this | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 plunge | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 plunge | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 plunge | aux |
| 22 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 dagger | det |
| 24 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plunge | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 breast | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 breast | nmod:poss |
| 27 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plunge | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 escape | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 escape | advmod |
| 30 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 plunge | conj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 importunities | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 importunities | det:predet |
| 33 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 importunities | det |
| 34 | importunities | importunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 escape | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 plunge | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 plunge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Sire | Fatima | angrily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | infinitive · do-support | Sire not said here | of this | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | plunge | future | I | this dagger | in my breast | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient dagger=Extent in breast=Attribute | |||
| 4 | escape | infinitive | I not said here | all importunities | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from importunity=Initial_Location |
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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