The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 48
"Take it back," she said, "I could not keep it without returning yours to you, and I am resolved to wear that as long as I live."
Who acts: you, princess · What happens: take back, say, not keep, return, resolve, wear · To what, where: ring, yours, you, princess, that · 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, princess), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 keep | advmod |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | obj |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 returning | mark |
| 17 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 keep | advcl |
| 18 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 returning | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 returning | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 resolved | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 resolved | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 resolved | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 resolved | aux:pass |
| 25 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Take | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 wear | mark |
| 27 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 resolved | xcomp |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 wear | obj |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 long | advmod |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 wear | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 live | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 live | nsubj |
| 33 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 long | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back in a quote | imperative | you not said here | ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not keep in a quote | could | princess | ring | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return in a quote | gerund | princess not said here | yours | you | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent your=Theme to you=Destination | |||
| 5 | resolve in a quote | present · passive | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wear in a quote | to-infinitive | that | long property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source | ||||
| 7 | live in a quote | present | princess | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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