The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 89
Speak to me more civilly," he said, "before I kill you."
Who acts: you, genius, I · What happens: speak, say, kill · To what, where: me, you · 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 (you, genius, 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Speak | obl |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 civilly | advmod |
| 5 | civilly | civilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Speak | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Speak | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | me | civilly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | genius | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | present | I | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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