The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 9
And if you consult all the merchants in Bagdad you will not find one to give a contrary opinion."
Who acts: you · What happens: consult, not find, give · To what, where: merchants, Bagdad, one, contrary opinion · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 consult | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 consult | nsubj |
| 4 | consult | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | advcl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 merchants | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchants | det |
| 7 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consult | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Bagdad | case |
| 9 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 consult | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 find | advmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 find | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 opinion | det |
| 18 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 opinion | amod |
| 19 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult a condition, not said to happen | present | you | all merchants | Bagdad | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme | |||
| 2 | not find | future | you | one | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | a contrary opinion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme |
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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