The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 75
I wonder you have not demanded pearls or diamonds.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: wonder, not demand · To what, where: pearls · 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), 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 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 demanded | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 demanded | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 demanded | advmod |
| 6 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 7 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 demanded | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 diamonds | cc |
| 9 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pearls | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not demand speech: request | present · perfect | you | pearls or diamonds | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pearl=Precondition |
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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