The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 73
Perhaps you will think that the house is beautiful enough as it is, and that we can do quite well without them; but in this I cannot agree with you, and I shall never be content until I have got them.
Who acts: you, house, we, I · What happens: think, be, do, not agree, not be, get · To what, where: this, qualities · Speech: someone speaks here
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, house, we, I), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 beautiful | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beautiful | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | ccomp |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 is | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 is | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 well | advmod |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 do | advmod |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 agree | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 agree | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 this | case |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 agree | obl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 agree | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 agree | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 agree | advmod |
| 31 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 agree | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 content | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 content | cc |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 content | nsubj |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 content | aux |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 content | advmod |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 content | cop |
| 40 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | parataxis |
| 41 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 44 got | mark |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 got | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 got | aux |
| 44 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 content | advcl |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 got | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | future | you | perhaps property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the house | beautiful, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | can | we | without qualities = quality; well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not agree speech: agree | can | I | this | with you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | not is | shall | I | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get | present · perfect | I | qualities = quality | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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