The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 59
I am by no means perfect, but I am not naturally cruel, neither do I take pleasure in breaking the law.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not be, take, break · To what, where: pleasure, law
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 means | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | cop |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 no | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 means | obl |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cruel | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 cruel | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 cruel | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cruel | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 cruel | advmod |
| 12 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 13 cruel | advmod |
| 13 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 15 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 take | cc:preconj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cruel | parataxis |
| 19 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 breaking | mark |
| 21 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 take | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 law | det |
| 23 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 breaking | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | by no; mean, perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | I | cruel, naturally property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | present · do-support | I | pleasure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | gerund | I not said here | the law | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=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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