The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 34
For the first I am not so deeply concerned, but my daughter I must have, and you must find her or lose your head."
Who acts: I, daughter, you · What happens: not be, have, find, lose · To what, where: daughter, head
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, daughter, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 first | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 concerned | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 concerned | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 concerned | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 concerned | advmod |
| 8 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 9 concerned | advmod |
| 9 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 first | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 first | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 find | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 first | parataxis |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 lose | cc |
| 24 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 find | conj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lose | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | concerned, deeply property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | must | my daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | must | you | daughter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lose | infinitive | you not said here | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
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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