The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 48
Still, you have not the air of a cruel man, and I would gladly believe that you did not act in this way without some reason.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, believe, not act · To what, where: air, way
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, I), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 air | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 air | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 believe | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 believe | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 believe | aux |
| 16 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 17 believe | advmod |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 act | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 act | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 act | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 act | advmod |
| 22 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 believe | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 act | obl |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 reason | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 reason | det |
| 28 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 act | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | the air of a cruel man | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | |||
| 2 | believe | would | I | gladly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not act | past · do-support | you | this way | without some reason | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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