The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 67
If you do not take care, you will repent of having trusted him.
Who acts: you · What happens: not take, repent, have, trust · To what, where: care, king
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), 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 | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 repent | advcl |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 repent | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 repent | aux |
| 10 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 having | mark |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 repent | advcl |
| 13 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 having | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trusted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 repent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repent | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | trust | participle | you not said here | king | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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