The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 10
I promise that you shall find it in the same place on your return."
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: promise, find, return · To what, where: vase, same place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 promise | nsubj |
| 2 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 return | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 return | nmod:poss |
| 14 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promise | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | shall | you | vase | the same place on your return | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | return | your | nom return «communication 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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