The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 56
It is but a disguise which I assumed in order to merit your illustrious alliance.
Who acts: person, disguise, your · What happens: be, assume, merit, ally · To what, where: disguise, order, illustrious alliance
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 (person, disguise, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 disguise | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 disguise | cop |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 disguise | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 disguise | det |
| 5 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 assumed | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 assumed | nsubj |
| 8 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disguise | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 order | case |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 assumed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 merit | mark |
| 12 | merit | merit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 assumed | advcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 alliance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | illustrious | illustrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 alliance | amod |
| 15 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 merit | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disguise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | person | a disguise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assume | past | a disguise | order | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | merit | to-infinitive | a disguise not said here | your illustrious alliance | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ally | your | nom alliance «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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