The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 94
"I cannot treat you in any other way," said the genius, "and if you would know why, listen to my story.
Who acts: genius, you · What happens: not treat, say, know, listen · To what, where: you, other way · 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 (genius, you), 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 treat | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 treat | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 treat | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 treat | advmod |
| 5 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 treat | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 way | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 treat | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 treat | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 genius | det |
| 15 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 know | cc |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 know | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 23 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 know | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 listen | punct |
| 25 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 story | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 story | nmod:poss |
| 28 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 listen | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not treat in a quote | can | the genius = genius | you | any other way | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the genius | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | listen in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | to my story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=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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