The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 42
"That is not in my power," said the genie; "I am only the slave of the ring; you must ask the slave of the lamp."
Who acts: That, genie, you · What happens: not be, say, be, ask · To what, where: power, slave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, genie, 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 | _ | 7 power | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 power | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 power | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 power | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 power | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 power | nmod:poss |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 power | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 power | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 genie | det |
| 12 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 slave | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 slave | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 slave | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 slave | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 slave | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 slave | det |
| 19 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ring | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ring | det |
| 22 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slave | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 ask | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 ask | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 ask | aux |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 slave | det |
| 28 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ask | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lamp | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lamp | det |
| 31 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 slave | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 ask | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | That | my power | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the genie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the genie = genie | the slave | of the ring | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | must | you | the slave of the lamp | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient |
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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