The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 72
Consider what you owe to yourself, and to the blood of your ancestors."
Who acts: you · What happens: consider, owe · To what, where: yourself
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Consider | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 owe | nsubj |
| 4 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 owe | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blood | cc |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 blood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blood | det |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Consider | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ancestors | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 blood | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consider | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consider | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | owe | present | you | yourself | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to yourself=Goal |
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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