The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 54
But, if I am not much mistaken, your condition is above what you appear to be."
Who acts: I, condition, you, your · What happens: not be, be, appear, condition
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 (I, condition, you, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 mistaken | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 mistaken | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 mistaken | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mistaken | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mistaken | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 mistaken | advmod |
| 8 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mistaken | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 condition | nmod:poss |
| 11 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 what | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | cop |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 mistaken | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 appear | nsubj |
| 16 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 be | mark |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 appear | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mistaken | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mistaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | mistaken property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | your condition | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | appear | present | you | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | be | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | condition | your | nom condition «state 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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