The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 13
Think what it is to be blind, and do not force me to do what you will repent as long as you live."
Who acts: you, evil, me · What happens: think, be, not force, not do, repent, live · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, evil, me), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Think | obj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 blind | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 blind | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 blind | cop |
| 7 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 force | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 force | cc |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 force | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 force | advmod |
| 12 | force | force | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 force | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 force | xcomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 repent | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 repent | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 repent | aux |
| 19 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 do | parataxis |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 repent | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 live | nsubj |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 long | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | evil | blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not force | infinitive · do-support | me | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not do | to-infinitive | me not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | repent | future | you | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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