The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 26
If it is the truth they tell me, and not flattery, it is to you I owe the transformation."
Who acts: hand, women, flattery, you · What happens: be, tell, owe · To what, where: truth, me, transformation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, women, flattery, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 truth | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 truth | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 truth | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | advcl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 owe | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 owe | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 flattery | advmod |
| 12 | flattery | flattery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 you | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flattery | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 you | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 you | cop |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 owe | nsubj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 owe | nsubj |
| 19 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 transformation | det |
| 21 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 owe | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | hand | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | women = woman | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | flattery | to you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | owe | present | you | the transformation | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent transformation=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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