The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 101
While I dress myself as a citizen, go and disguise yourself, and then come with me."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: dress, go, disguise, come · To what, where: myself, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 dress | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dress | nsubj |
| 3 | dress | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | advcl |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 dress | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 citizen | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 citizen | det |
| 7 | citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dress | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dress | punct |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 disguise | cc |
| 11 | disguise | disguise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 disguise | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 come | advmod |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | present | I | myself | as a citizen | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | disguise | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yourself=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | you not said here | then | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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