The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 50
"Wretched son! thou destroyest not only thyself but thy father.
Who acts: thou · What happens: destroy · To what, where: Wretched son
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 (thou), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | Wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 destroyest | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 destroyest | nsubj |
| 6 | destroyest | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 thyself | advmod |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 thyself | advmod |
| 9 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 6 destroyest | ccomp |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 father | cc |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thyself | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 destroyest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy in a quote | present | thou | Wretched son | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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