The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 71
You do not realise the burden that you lay upon yourself, when you gather into your hands such great wealth, besides the fact that no one, who is not accustomed to camels from his birth, can ever manage the stubborn beasts.
Who acts: You, burden · What happens: not realise, lay, gather, not accustom, manage · To what, where: burden, hands, one, stubborn beasts
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, burden), 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 realise | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 realise | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 realise | advmod |
| 4 | realise | realise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 burden | det |
| 6 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 realise | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 burden | acl:relcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 yourself | case |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gather | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 gather | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 gather | nsubj |
| 15 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 realise | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gather | obj |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wealth | amod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wealth | amod |
| 21 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hands | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fact | punct |
| 23 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 25 fact | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fact | det |
| 25 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 manage | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 one | mark |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fact | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 accustomed | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 accustomed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 accustomed | advmod |
| 33 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 one | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 camels | case |
| 35 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 accustomed | obl |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 birth | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 birth | nmod:poss |
| 38 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 camels | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fact | punct |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 manage | aux |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 manage | advmod |
| 42 | manage | manage | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 realise | parataxis |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 beasts | det |
| 44 | stubborn | stubborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 beasts | amod |
| 45 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 manage | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 realise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not realise | present · do-support | You | the burden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | the burden | upon yourself | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon yourself=Destination | ||||
| 3 | gather | present | you | your hands | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not accustom | present · passive | no one | to camels from profession's birth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | manage | can | the stubborn beasts | ever | besides the fact | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
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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