The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 83
But as everything is uncertain, I promise you to be very careful.
Who acts: everything, I · What happens: be, promise · To what, where: you
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 (everything, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 promise | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 uncertain | mark |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 uncertain | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 uncertain | cop |
| 5 | uncertain | uncertain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 promise | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 uncertain | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 promise | nsubj |
| 8 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 promise | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 careful | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 careful | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 careful | advmod |
| 13 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 promise | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | everything | uncertain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | I | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | careful 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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