The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 60
I admit that the treatment of my horse is calculated to give your Highness a bad opinion of me, and to set an evil example to others; yet I have not chastised it without reason, and I have hopes that I shall be judged more worthy of pity than punishment."
Who acts: I · What happens: admit, calculate, give, set, not chastise, have · To what, where: treatment, Highness, evil example, hopes, horse, me · 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 (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 | 2 admit | nsubj |
| 2 | admit | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 calculated | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 treatment | det |
| 5 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calculated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treatment | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 calculated | aux:pass |
| 10 | calculated | calculate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 admit | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 calculated | xcomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 opinion | det |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 opinion | amod |
| 17 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 opinion | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | conj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 example | det |
| 25 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 example | amod |
| 26 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 others | case |
| 28 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 set | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 chastised | punct |
| 30 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 34 chastised | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 chastised | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 chastised | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 chastised | advmod |
| 34 | chastised | chastise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 admit | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 chastised | obj |
| 36 | without | without | ADP | _ | 37 reason | case |
| 37 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 chastised | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 have | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 have | cc |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 have | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 admit | conj |
| 42 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 have | obj |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 judged | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 judged | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 judged | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 judged | aux:pass |
| 47 | judged | judge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 hopes | acl:relcl |
| 48 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 worthy | amod |
| 49 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 judged | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 pity | case |
| 51 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 worthy | nmod |
| 52 | than | than | ADP | _ | 53 punishment | case |
| 53 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pity | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 admit | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 admit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | present | I | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | calculate | present · passive | the treatment of my horse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | your Highness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent highness=Recipient opinion=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | a evil example | to others | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient example=Result | ||||
| 5 | not chastise | present · perfect | I | Highness | without reason | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | have | present | I | hopes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | ||||
| 7 | judge | shall · passive | hopes | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | treat | my horse | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | opine | me | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=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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