The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 19
"What are you thinking of, sir," exclaimed some; "why expose yourself to certain death?
Who acts: you · What happens: be, exclaim, expose · To what, where: some, yourself, certain death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 thinking | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thinking | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thinking | nsubj |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sir | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sir | punct |
| 8 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thinking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thinking | parataxis |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 expose | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 expose | punct |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 expose | advmod |
| 16 | expose | expose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 exclaimed | conj |
| 17 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 expose | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 death | amod |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expose | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: other in a quote | present | you | of sir; think property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | some | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent some=Topic | |||||
| 3 | expose in a quote | infinitive | yourself | certain death | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme to death=Recipient |
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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