The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 67
Do you imagine that I should appropriate this treasure?
Who acts: you, I · What happens: imagine, appropriate · To what, where: treasure
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 appropriate | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 appropriate | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 appropriate | aux |
| 7 | appropriate | appropriate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 treasure | det |
| 9 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appropriate | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appropriate | should | I | this treasure | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=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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