The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 73
I have no idea of being under any obligation to an accursed genius like you.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, be, accurs · To what, where: idea
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 obligation | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 obligation | cop |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 obligation | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 obligation | det |
| 9 | obligation | obligation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 idea | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 genius | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 genius | det |
| 12 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 genius | amod |
| 13 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obligation | nmod |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 genius | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | of any obligation; to a accursed genius like you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | accurs | participle | 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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