The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 59
If I persist, I doubt not that he will use violence."
Who acts: I, Aladdin · What happens: persist, not doubt, use · To what, where: violence
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, Aladdin), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 persist | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 persist | nsubj |
| 3 | persist | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 doubt | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 persist | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 doubt | nsubj |
| 6 | doubt | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 doubt | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 use | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 use | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 use | aux |
| 11 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 doubt | ccomp |
| 12 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 use | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 doubt | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 doubt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persist a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not doubt | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | future | Aladdin | violence | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violence=Patient |
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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