The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 42
"My brother," he answered quietly, "you know as well as I do, that you are behaving unjustly.
Who acts: brother, you · What happens: answer, know, do, behave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brother, 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 7 answered | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 know | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 well | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 behaving | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 behaving | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 behaving | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 behaving | aux |
| 22 | behaving | behave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 know | conj |
| 23 | unjustly | unjustly | ADV | _ | 22 behaving | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My brother | quietly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | My brother = brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | behave in a quote | present · progressive | you | unjustly property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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