The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 70
You are a dervish by profession, and live a very quiet life, only caring to do good, and careless of the things of this world.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, live, care, do · To what, where: dervish, quiet life, good
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 dervish | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dervish | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dervish | det |
| 4 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 profession | case |
| 6 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dervish | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 live | cc |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 dervish | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 life | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 quiet | advmod |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caring | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 caring | advmod |
| 16 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 live | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 caring | xcomp |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 careless | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 careless | cc |
| 22 | careless | careles | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 live | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 things | det |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 careless | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 world | det |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 things | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dervish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | a dervish | by profession | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | infinitive | a quiet life | careless of the things of this world obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 3 | care | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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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