The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 60
Even if you are suspected and the king accuses you, you have only to say that, after examining the slave, you did not find her worthy of his Majesty.
Who acts: king, you · What happens: suspect, accuse, have, say, examine, not find · To what, where: you, that, slave, worthy · 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 (king, 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 suspected | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 suspected | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 suspected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 suspected | aux:pass |
| 5 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 accuses | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accuses | nsubj |
| 9 | accuses | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 suspected | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 accuses | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 accuses | conj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 say | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 say | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 examining | punct |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 examining | mark |
| 20 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 say | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 slave | det |
| 22 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 examining | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 find | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 find | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 find | advmod |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 say | parataxis |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 worthy | nmod:poss |
| 29 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 find | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Majesty | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 worthy | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | present · passive | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | accuse | present | the king | you | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 5 | examine | gerund | you not said here | the slave | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not find | past · do-support | you | wife's worthy of Saouy's Majesty | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worthy=Topic |
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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