The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 112
"Commander of the Faithful," said the vizir, "if Scheih Ibrahim recognises you he will die of fright."
Who acts: Commander, Scheih Ibrahim, Ibrahim · What happens: say, recognise, die · To what, where: vizir, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Commander, Scheih Ibrahim, Ibrahim), 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 | _ | 2 Commander | punct |
| 2 | Commander | Commander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Faithful | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Faithful | det |
| 5 | Faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Commander | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Commander | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Commander | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vizir | det |
| 10 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 recognises | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 recognises | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 recognises | mark |
| 14 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ibrahim | compound |
| 15 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 recognises | nsubj |
| 16 | recognises | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 recognises | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 die | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 die | aux |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 recognises | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fright | case |
| 22 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 die | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 recognises | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 recognises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Commander of the Faithful | the vizir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recognise a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Scheih Ibrahim | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | future | Ibrahim | of fright | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fright=Causer |
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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