The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 93
Some people might have hesitated before exploring further, but not so the prince. "
Who acts: people · What happens: hesitate, explore
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 (people), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hesitated | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hesitated | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hesitated | aux |
| 5 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 exploring | mark |
| 7 | exploring | explore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hesitated | advcl |
| 8 | further | further | ADV | _ | 7 exploring | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prince | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 prince | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 prince | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 prince | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hesitated | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hesitated | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hesitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | might · perfect | some people | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | explore | gerund | some people not said here | further property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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