The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 67
"O Fortune," he cried, "do not trifle thus with me, a poor fisherman, who can hardly support his family!"
Who acts: sire, poor fisherman · What happens: cry, not trifle, support · To what, where: poor fisherman, family · 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 (sire, poor fisherman), 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 | _ | 3 Fortune | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Fortune | discourse |
| 3 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fortune | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trifle | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 trifle | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 trifle | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 trifle | advmod |
| 12 | trifle | trifle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 trifle | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 trifle | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fisherman | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fisherman | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fisherman | amod |
| 19 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 support | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 support | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 support | aux |
| 23 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 24 support | advmod |
| 24 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 family | nmod:poss |
| 26 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 support | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 fisherman | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fisherman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | sire | a poor fisherman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not trifle in a quote | infinitive · do-support | sire not said here | with sire; thus property | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | support in a quote | can | a poor fisherman | sire's family | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus |
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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