The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 114
I cannot believe it unless I see you do the thing."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not believe, see, do · To what, where: body, thing
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | obj |
| 6 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | can | I | body | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | do | present | you | the thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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