The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 67
I love peace," he said, "and shall deeply regret having to resort to harsh measures.
Who acts: I, Ali · What happens: love, say, regret, have, resort · To what, where: peace · 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, Ali), 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 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 regret | cc |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 regret | aux |
| 12 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 13 regret | advmod |
| 13 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 love | conj |
| 14 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 regret | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 resort | mark |
| 16 | resort | resort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 having | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 measures | case |
| 18 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 measures | amod |
| 19 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 resort | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | peace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ali | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | regret | shall | I not said here | deeply property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | resort | to-infinitive | I not said here | to harsh measures result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to measure=Result |
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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