The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 30
But I have none that will give you back your sight.
Who acts: I, your · What happens: have, give back, sight · To what, where: none, sight, you
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 (I, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 have | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 none | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | back | back | ADP | _ | 7 give | compound:prt |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sight | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give back | future | your sight | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | your | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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