The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 58
Fear nothing, but answer me the truth."
What happens: answer · To what, where: truth, me
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: 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 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nothing | compound |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 answer | cc |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 nothing | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 answer | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nothing | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | the truth | me | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme truth=Eventuality |
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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