The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 67
"But there must be something," persisted Prince Bahman, "for you to have changed so much during the short time we have been absent.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, persist, change · To what, where: something, Bahman, short time
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | _ | 6 something | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 be | cc |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 be | expl |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 something | cop |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 persisted | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 persisted | punct |
| 9 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 persisted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 changed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 changed | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 changed | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 changed | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 changed | mark |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 changed | aux |
| 18 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 persisted | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 changed | advmod |
| 21 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changed | obl |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 absent | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 absent | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 absent | cop |
| 28 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | imperative | you not said here | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | persist | past | Bahman Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | change in a quote | to-infinitive · perfect | you | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present · perfect | we | the short time not said here | absent property | tree rules |
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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