The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 38
If I am wrong, I deserve to be punished as a vizir was once punished." "
Who acts: I · What happens: be, deserve, punish · To what, where: vizir
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 (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wrong | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deserve | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 deserve | nsubj |
| 7 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 punished | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 punished | aux:pass |
| 10 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 deserve | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 punished | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 vizir | det |
| 13 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 punished | aux:pass |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 punished | advmod |
| 16 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 punished | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 deserve | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 deserve | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 deserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | I | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deserve | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | punish | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | punish | past · passive | a vizir | once property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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