The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 49
But I do know that it was even more marvellous than either of the others, so that the genius was astonished, and said to the third old man, "I will give up to you the third part of the merchant's punishment.
Who acts: I, other two, genius, merchant · What happens: know, be, say, give up, punish · To what, where: third old man, third part · 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 (I, other two, genius, merchant), 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 | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 marvellous | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 marvellous | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 marvellous | cop |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 marvellous | advmod |
| 10 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | ccomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 either | case |
| 12 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 marvellous | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 others | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 others | det |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 either | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 astonished | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 astonished | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 genius | det |
| 20 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 astonished | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 astonished | cop |
| 22 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 astonished | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 man | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 28 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 man | amod |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 man | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 give | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 give | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 give | aux |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 give | compound:prt |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 give | obl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 part | det |
| 40 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 part | amod |
| 41 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 give | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 punishment | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 merchant | det |
| 44 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 merchant | case |
| 46 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 part | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | other two = two | than either; marvellous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the genius | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the third old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | give up in a quote | future | I | the third part of the merchant's punishment | the third old man = man | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 6 | punish in a quote | the merchant | nom punishment «act 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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