The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 9
"Sire," answered the grand-vizir, "it is most dangerous for a monarch to confide in a man whose faithfulness is not proved, You do not know that this physician is not a traitor come here to assassinate you."
Who acts: Sire, You, physician · What happens: answer, be, confide, not prove, not know, not be · To what, where: grand vizir, faithfulness, traitor, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sire, You, physician), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizir | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vizir | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 grand | punct |
| 9 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dangerous | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dangerous | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dangerous | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dangerous | cop |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 dangerous | advmod |
| 15 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answered | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 monarch | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 monarch | det |
| 18 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dangerous | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 confide | mark |
| 20 | confide | confide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 monarch | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 confide | obl |
| 24 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 25 faithfulness | nmod:poss |
| 25 | faithfulness | faithfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 proved | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 proved | aux:pass |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 proved | advmod |
| 28 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 man | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 30 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 know | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 know | advmod |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 traitor | mark |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 physician | det |
| 36 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 traitor | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 traitor | cop |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 traitor | advmod |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 traitor | det |
| 40 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 know | ccomp |
| 41 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 know | conj |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 come | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 assassinate | mark |
| 44 | assassinate | assassinate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 come | advcl |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 assassinate | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Sire | the grand vizir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Sire | for a monarch; dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | confide speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | Sire not said here | in a man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not prove in a quote | present · passive | faithfulness | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | not is a in a quote | present | this physician | a traitor | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | assassinate in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | you | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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