The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 9
"It is true all the same," answered the dervish, "and it would be well for you if you believed my word."
Who acts: ear, dervish, you, my · What happens: be, answer, believe, word · To what, where: word · 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 (ear, dervish, you, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 same | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 true | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dervish | det |
| 12 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dervish | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dervish | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 you | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 you | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 you | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 you | cop |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 you | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | conj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 believed | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 believed | nsubj |
| 24 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | advcl |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 word | nmod:poss |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 believed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | ear | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | ear not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the dervish | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | would | ear | for you; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | believe a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | my word | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication 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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