The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 51
You see, my dear sister, my taste is as good as yours."
Who acts: You, taste, my · What happens: see, be, taste
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, taste, my), 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 | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sister | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 taste | nmod:poss |
| 9 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 good | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sister | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 yours | case |
| 14 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 good | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | my taste | as yours; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | taste | my | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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