The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 32
But I am very angry with your brothers, and I shall not rest till I have taken their lives."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not rest, take · To what, where: lives
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 angry | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 brothers | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 angry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rest | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rest | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 rest | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 rest | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 rest | advmod |
| 14 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 taken | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 taken | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 rest | advcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lives | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 taken | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | with your brothers; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not rest | shall | I | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | present · perfect | I | qualities's lives | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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