The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 28
Pay no attention to my idle words, I really have no desire for olives now.
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: pay, have, word · To what, where: attention, desire
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 (you, I, 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 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 attention | det |
| 3 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pay | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pay | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 desire | det |
| 13 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 olives | case |
| 15 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 desire | nmod |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 have | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | imperative | you not said here | no attention | to my idle words | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | no desire | now | for olives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||
| 3 | word | 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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