The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 61
Reassure yourself, and send to the dealers, saying that you are not satisfied, and wish them to find you another slave."
Who acts: you · What happens: reassure, send, say, not be, wish, find · To what, where: yourself, dealers, consequences, you · 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 (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 | Reassure | reassure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Reassure | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 send | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 send | cc |
| 5 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Reassure | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 dealers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dealers | det |
| 8 | dealers | dealer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 send | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 send | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 satisfied | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 satisfied | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 satisfied | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 satisfied | advmod |
| 15 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wish | cc |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Reassure | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wish | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 slave | det |
| 24 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Reassure | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Reassure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reassure | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | send | infinitive | you not said here | the dealers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to dealer=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | you | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish | present | consequences = consequence | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme slave=Attribute |
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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