The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 52
By the law of nations, I am already your slave, and I have only my heart, that is my own, to offer you.
Who acts: I, that · What happens: be, have, offer · To what, where: slave, heart, you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 law | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 law | det |
| 3 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slave | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 nations | case |
| 5 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 law | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 law | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 slave | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 slave | cop |
| 9 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 slave | advmod |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 slave | nmod:poss |
| 11 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 slave | conj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 heart | advmod |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 own | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 own | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 own | cop |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 own | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 slave | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 offer | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 offer | mark |
| 26 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 own | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 offer | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 slave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | your slave | by the law of nations | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | my heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | own property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | offer | to-infinitive | that not said here | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=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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