The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 132
You can come every day to fish in this lake, but be careful not to throw your nets more than once every day, otherwise some harm will happen to you.
Who acts: You, harm · What happens: come, fish, be, not throw, happen · To what, where: lake, nets, you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, harm), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fish | mark |
| 7 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 careful | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 careful | cc |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 careful | cop |
| 14 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 come | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 throw | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 throw | mark |
| 17 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 careful | parataxis |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nets | nmod:poss |
| 19 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 throw | obj |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 17 throw | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 more | fixed |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 throw | advmod |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 once | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 happen | punct |
| 26 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 30 happen | advmod |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 harm | det |
| 28 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 happen | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 happen | aux |
| 30 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 throw | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 happen | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | can | You | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fish | to-infinitive | You not said here | this lake | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in lake=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | You not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not throw | to-infinitive | your nets | once property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | ||||
| 5 | happen | future | some harm | you | otherwise property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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