The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 93
I should certainly lose my way in the dark, even if my strength held out."
Who acts: I, strength · What happens: lose, hold out · To what, where: way, dark
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, strength), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 lose | advmod |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dark | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dark | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 held | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 held | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 strength | nmod:poss |
| 14 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lose | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 held | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | should | I | my way | the dark | certainly property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | hold out a condition, not said to happen | participle | my strength | vn exist-47.1 «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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