The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 1
"Do not question me," he replied, "see me, you see all I have.
Who acts: you, he, I · What happens: not question, reply, see, have · To what, where: me, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, he, I), 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 | _ | 4 question | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 question | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 question | advmod |
| 4 | question | question | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 question | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 question | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 question | parataxis |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 all | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not question speech: other in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | he | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | he not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | you | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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