The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 83
"Well, your head shall answer for it," returned the monarch, "and if in three months he is not safe back with me, or at any rate does not send me news of his safety, your life shall pay the penalty."
Who acts: head, three months, life · What happens: answer, return, not be, not send, pay · To what, where: monarch, news, king, rate, penalty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (head, three months, life), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 answer | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | aux |
| 7 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answer | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monarch | det |
| 14 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 safe | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 months | mark |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 months | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 months | nummod |
| 21 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 safe | nsubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 safe | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 safe | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 safe | advmod |
| 25 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answer | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 safe | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 safe | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 send | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 send | cc |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 rate | case |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 rate | det |
| 33 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 send | obl |
| 34 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 send | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 send | advmod |
| 36 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | parataxis |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 send | iobj |
| 38 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 send | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 safety | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 safety | nmod:poss |
| 41 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 news | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 pay | punct |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 life | nmod:poss |
| 44 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 pay | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 pay | aux |
| 46 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answer | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 penalty | det |
| 48 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 pay | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | shall | your head | for Horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the monarch | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monarch=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | three months | with the king = king; safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not send in a quote | present · do-support | news of rapidity's safety | the king = king | any rate | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination news=Theme | |||
| 5 | pay in a quote | shall | your life | the penalty | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penalty=Asset |
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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