The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 101
But beware lest you touch your right eye with it, or your sight will be destroyed for ever."
Who acts: you, your · What happens: beware, touch, destroy, sight · To what, where: right eye, sight
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 (you, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 beware | cc |
| 2 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 5 touch | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | nsubj |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 beware | advcl |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eye | nmod:poss |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eye | amod |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touch | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 destroyed | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 destroyed | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sight | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 destroyed | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 17 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 beware | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ever | case |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 destroyed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beware | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | touch | present | you | your right eye | with treasure | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Experiencer with it=Instrument | |||
| 3 | destroy | future · passive | your sight | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sight | your | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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