The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 55
My honour is at stake, and that is more precious to me than all my wealth.
Who acts: honour, that, My · What happens: be, honour · To what, where: stake, me
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 (honour, that, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 honour | nmod:poss |
| 2 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stake | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stake | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 stake | case |
| 5 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 precious | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 precious | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 precious | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 precious | cop |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 precious | advmod |
| 11 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stake | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 precious | obl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 wealth | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 wealth | det:predet |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 precious | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My honour | stake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | me | than my wealth; precious property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | honour | My | nom honour «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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