The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 49
That is something worth talking about, you would certainly quite lose your head."
Who acts: That · What happens: be, talk about, lose · To what, where: something, head
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 something | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 something | cop |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 4 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 something | amod |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 worth | advcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 talking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 would | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 12 lose | advmod |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 lose | advmod |
| 12 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 would | advcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lose | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 would | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 would | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk about | gerund | That not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lose | present | That not said here | your head | certainly property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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