The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 76
Our fortune is large enough for all our needs, therefore, dear Amina, do not seek to check yourself, but eat as much as you desire, as I do!"
Who acts: fortune, you, I, our · What happens: be, not seek, check, eat, desire, do · To what, where: yourself, much
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 (fortune, you, I, our), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 large | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 large | cop |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 large | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 needs | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 needs | det:predet |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 needs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 large | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 therefore | punct |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 large | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Amina | punct |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Amina | amod |
| 14 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 large | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seek | punct |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seek | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 seek | advmod |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 large | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 check | mark |
| 20 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seek | xcomp |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 check | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eat | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 eat | cc |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seek | parataxis |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eat | obj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 desire | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 desire | nsubj |
| 29 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 much | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 do | nsubj |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 eat | conj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 large | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Our fortune | for our needs; dear Amina obl; enough, large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not seek | infinitive · do-support | Our fortune not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | check not said to happen | to-infinitive | Our fortune not said here | yourself | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | much | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | |||||
| 5 | desire | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | need | our | nom need «state 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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