The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 41
Go and find me the dress of a dervish, but beware of saying it is for me."
Who acts: you, dress · What happens: go, find, beware, say, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dress), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 find | cc |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dress | det |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dervish | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dervish | det |
| 9 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dress | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beware | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 beware | cc |
| 12 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 saying | mark |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 beware | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 me | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 me | cop |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme dress=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | beware | infinitive | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | dress | for me | tree rules |
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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