The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 80
"My brother," I said, "I am unwilling to part from you without pointing out what I think you scarcely grasp, that large experience of camel-driving is necessary to anybody who intends to keep together a troop of thirty.
Who acts: brother, scarcely grasp · What happens: say, unwill, point out, think, be, intend · To what, where: you, troop, camel driving · 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, scarcely grasp), 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 said | 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 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 unwilling | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 unwilling | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 unwilling | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 unwilling | aux |
| 12 | unwilling | unwill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 part | mark |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unwilling | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 unwilling | obl |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 pointing | mark |
| 18 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 unwilling | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 pointing | compound:prt |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 pointing | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 think | nsubj |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 think | obj |
| 24 | scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grasp | amod |
| 25 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 necessary | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 experience | punct |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 experience | det |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 experience | amod |
| 29 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grasp | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 driving | case |
| 31 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 driving | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 camel | punct |
| 33 | driving | driving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 experience | nmod |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 necessary | cop |
| 35 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 think | ccomp |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 anybody | case |
| 37 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 necessary | obl |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 intends | nsubj |
| 39 | intends | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 anybody | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 keep | mark |
| 41 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 intends | xcomp |
| 42 | together | together | ADV | _ | 41 keep | advmod |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 troop | det |
| 44 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 keep | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 thirty | case |
| 46 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 troop | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | unwill in a quote | present · progressive | My brother = brother | from you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | point out in a quote | gerund | My brother = brother not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | My brother = brother | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | scarcely grasp and that large experience of camel driving | to anybody; necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | intend in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | keep together not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | a troop of thirty | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troop=Theme | ||||
| 8 | experience in a quote | camel driving | nom experience «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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