The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 110
"Since I must die," he said, "before I choose the manner of my death, I conjure you on your honour to tell me if you really were in that vase?"
Who acts: Fisherman, you, my, your · What happens: die, say, choose, conjure, tell, be · To what, where: manner, you, honour, Fisherman, vase · 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 (Fisherman, you, my, 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 | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 5 die | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 die | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 die | aux |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 conjure | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 conjure | punct |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 choose | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 choose | nsubj |
| 14 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 conjure | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 manner | det |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choose | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 death | nmod:poss |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 manner | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 choose | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 conjure | nsubj |
| 22 | conjure | conjure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 conjure | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 honour | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 honour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 conjure | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 tell | mark |
| 28 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 conjure | advcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 tell | iobj |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 vase | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 vase | nsubj |
| 32 | really | really | ADV | _ | 36 vase | advmod |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 vase | cop |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 vase | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 vase | det |
| 36 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tell | ccomp |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | must | Fisherman | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | choose in a quote | present | Fisherman | the manner of my death | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conjure in a quote | present | Fisherman | you | your honour | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Result | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Fisherman not said here | Fisherman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | that vase | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | die in a quote | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | honour in a quote | your | nom honour «state 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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