The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 6
"Wretch, receive the reward of your prying, and become a dog."
Who acts: Wretch, your · What happens: receive, become, reward, pry · To what, where: reward, dog, prying
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wretch, your), 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 receive | punct |
| 2 | Wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 receive | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretch | punct |
| 4 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reward | det |
| 6 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 receive | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 prying | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 prying | nmod:poss |
| 9 | prying | prying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reward | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 become | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 become | cc |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 receive | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 become | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 receive | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive in a quote | infinitive | Wretch | the reward of your prying | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become in a quote | infinitive | Wretch not said here | a dog | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reward in a quote | your prying | nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | pry in a quote | your | nom prying «cognition intransitive»: 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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