The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 123

"No," answered the fisherman, "if I trust myself to you I am afraid you will treat me as a certain Greek king treated the physician Douban.

Who acts: fisherman, you, certain Greek king · What happens: answer, trust, be, treat · To what, where: fisherman, you, physician · 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, certain Greek king), 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 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fisherman	det
7	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 trust	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 trust	nsubj
12	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	parataxis
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 trust	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 trust	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 afraid	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	cop
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answered	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 treat	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 treat	aux
21	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 afraid	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 treat	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	27 king	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 king	det
25	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 king	amod
26	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 king	amod
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 treat	obl
28	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 king	acl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 physician	det
30	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 treated	obj
31	Douban	Douban	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 physician	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the fisherman				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	trust a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the fisherman = fisherman	the fisherman = fisherman	you		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to you=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	the fisherman = fisherman			afraid property	tree rules
4	treat in a quote	future	you	the fisherman = fisherman		as a certain Greek king	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme as king=Attribute
5	treat in a quote	participle	a certain Greek king not said here	the physician			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent physician=Recipient

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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