The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 65
His mother, though knowing very well that he returned to the house every evening, dare not ask her husband to pardon him.
Who acts: mother, Saouy · What happens: know, return, ask, pardon · To what, where: husband, Saouy
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 (mother, Saouy), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knowing | punct |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 knowing | mark |
| 5 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 mother | acl |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 knowing | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 returned | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knowing | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ask | punct |
| 17 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ask | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 dare | advmod |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 husband | nmod:poss |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pardon | mark |
| 23 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ask | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pardon | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | Saouy's mother not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Saouy | evening | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Saouy's mother | mother's husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pardon not said to happen | to-infinitive | Saouy's mother not said here | Saouy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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