The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 4
I have deserved it richly, and even a more severe penalty."
Who acts: I · What happens: deserve · To what, where: blow
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), 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 deserved | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 deserved | aux |
| 3 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 deserved | obj |
| 5 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 3 deserved | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 penalty | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 penalty | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 penalty | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 penalty | det |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 severe | advmod |
| 11 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 penalty | amod |
| 12 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deserved | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deserved | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 deserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present · perfect | I | blow | a severe penalty obl; richly property | 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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