The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 54
My lord," she cried, "whoever you may be, put no faith in this impostor.
Who acts: lord · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: impostor
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 (lord), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lord | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lord | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 be | punct |
| 9 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 be | nsubj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 be | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 put | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 faith | det |
| 16 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 impostor | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 impostor | det |
| 19 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | My lord | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | My lord not said here | this impostor | put property | 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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