The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 70
"He will be sufficiently punished," answered the lady, "if you do as I suggest.
Who acts: lady, you · What happens: punish, answer, do, suggest · To what, where: vizir · 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 (lady, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 punished | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 punished | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 punished | aux:pass |
| 5 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 6 punished | advmod |
| 6 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 punished | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 suggest | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 suggest | nsubj |
| 19 | suggest | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 punished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish in a quote | future · passive | vizir | sufficiently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the lady | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | suggest speech: suggest in a quote | present | the lady = lady | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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