The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 56
Speak then openly and without fear, as to one who knows and loves you."
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, know, love · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 openly | advmod |
| 3 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 1 Speak | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fear | cc |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 openly | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Speak | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 loves | cc |
| 14 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 knows | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 loves | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | openly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | love | present | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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