The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 21
I am the Slave of the Ring, and will obey thee in all things."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, obey · To what, where: Slave, thee, things
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Slave | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Slave | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Slave | det |
| 4 | Slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ring | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ring | det |
| 7 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Slave | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 obey | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 obey | cc |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 obey | aux |
| 11 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Slave | conj |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 obey | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 things | det |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 obey | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Slave | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Slave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the Slave | of the Ring | tree rules | |||
| 2 | obey | future | I not said here | thee | all things | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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