The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 99
The one obstacle is my father's tender care of me, for, as you may have noticed, he cannot bear me out of his sight."
Who acts: one obstacle, you, prince · What happens: be, notice, not bear, sight · To what, where: tender care, me, sight
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one obstacle, you, prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 obstacle | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 obstacle | nummod |
| 3 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 care | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 care | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 care | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 care | amod |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 care | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bear | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 noticed | mark |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 noticed | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 noticed | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 noticed | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 noticed | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 noticed | aux |
| 19 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 bear | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 noticed | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bear | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 bear | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 bear | advmod |
| 24 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 care | parataxis |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 bear | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 sight | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sight | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sight | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bear | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 care | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the one obstacle | my father's tender care | of me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | notice | may · perfect | you | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not bear | can | prince | me | prince's sight | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 4 | sight | prince | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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