The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 68
Who knows what this remedy, with which he has cured you, may not in time have a bad effect on you?"
Who acts: king · What happens: know, remedy, cure, not have · To what, where: you, bad effect
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 (king), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 remedy | nsubj |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 remedy | det |
| 5 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knows | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cured | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cured | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cured | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cured | aux |
| 11 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 remedy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 cured | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 have | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obl |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remedy | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 effect | det |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 effect | amod |
| 21 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 effect | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 remedy | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | remedy | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | cure | present · perfect | king | you | with this remedy | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source | |||
| 4 | not have | may | a bad effect | time | on you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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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