The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 10
I have sworn a solemn oath that I will receive nothing without receiving chastisement, and if you knew all, you would feel that the punishment is not a tenth part of what I deserve."
Who acts: I, solemn oath, you, punishment · What happens: swear, receive, know, feel, not be, deserve · To what, where: solemn oath, nothing, chastisement, all, tenth part
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, solemn oath, you, punishment), 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 | 3 sworn | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sworn | aux |
| 3 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 oath | det |
| 5 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 oath | amod |
| 6 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sworn | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 receive | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 receive | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 receive | aux |
| 10 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 oath | acl:relcl |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 receive | obj |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 receiving | mark |
| 13 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 receive | advcl |
| 14 | chastisement | chastisement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 receiving | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knew | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 knew | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sworn | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 knew | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feel | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 feel | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 feel | aux |
| 24 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sworn | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 part | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 punishment | det |
| 27 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 part | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 part | cop |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 part | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 part | det |
| 31 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 part | amod |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 feel | advcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 what | case |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 part | nmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 deserve | nsubj |
| 36 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 what | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 feel | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present · perfect | I | a solemn oath | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | receive | future | a solemn oath | nothing | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | gerund | a solemn oath not said here | chastisement | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chastisement=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | you | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | feel | would | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | not is a | present | the punishment | a tenth part | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | deserve | present | I | tree rules |
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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