The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 99
But, without condemning your treatment of her, I wish you to reflect how much she must suffer from being changed into an animal, and I hope you will let that punishment be enough.
Who acts: I, story, you, punishment, your · What happens: condemn, wish, reflect, suffer, change, hope · To what, where: treatment, you, much, punishment, story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, story, you, punishment), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 wish | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 condemning | mark |
| 4 | condemning | condemn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wish | advcl |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 treatment | nmod:poss |
| 6 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 condemning | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 treatment | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 condemning | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 reflect | mark |
| 14 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wish | advcl |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 suffer | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 suffer | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 suffer | aux |
| 19 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 reflect | ccomp |
| 20 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 22 changed | mark |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 changed | aux:pass |
| 22 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 suffer | xcomp |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 animal | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 animal | det |
| 25 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 changed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hope | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hope | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 hope | nsubj |
| 29 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wish | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 let | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 let | aux |
| 32 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hope | ccomp |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 punishment | det |
| 34 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 let | obj |
| 35 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 let | xcomp |
| 36 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 be | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | gerund | I not said here | your treatment of story | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | I | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reflect | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | suffer | must | story | much | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | change | gerund · passive | story not said here | into a animal result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into animal=Result | ||||
| 6 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | let | future | you | that punishment | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | infinitive | that punishment not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | treat | your | story | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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