The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 9
"My lord," she replied, "I am well aware of your love for me, which is only equalled by mine for you, but a cruel necessity obliges us to seek the only remedy."
Who acts: lord, cruel necessity, your · What happens: reply, be, equall, oblige, seek, love · To what, where: us, only remedy · 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 (lord, cruel necessity, your), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 aware | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 aware | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 aware | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 aware | cop |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 aware | advmod |
| 13 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 love | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 love | nmod:poss |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 aware | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 aware | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 equalled | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 equalled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 equalled | aux:pass |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 equalled | advmod |
| 23 | equalled | equall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 aware | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 mine | case |
| 25 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 equalled | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 equalled | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 obliges | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 obliges | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 necessity | det |
| 31 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 necessity | amod |
| 32 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 obliges | nsubj |
| 33 | obliges | oblige | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 obliges | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 seek | mark |
| 36 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 obliges | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 remedy | det |
| 38 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 remedy | amod |
| 39 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 seek | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My lord | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | My lord = lord | of your love; for My lord = lord; aware, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | equall in a quote | present · passive | My lord = lord | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | oblige in a quote | present | a cruel necessity | us | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 5 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | a cruel necessity not said here | the only remedy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme | ||||
| 6 | love in a quote | your | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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