The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 85
As long as it keeps bright and clean as it is to-day, you will know that I am living; but if the blade is spotted with blood, it will be a sign that I am dead, and you shall weep for me."
Who acts: knife, you, I · What happens: keep, be, know, live, spot, weep · To what, where: blade, sign · 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 (knife, you, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 keeps | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 keeps | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keeps | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 clean | cc |
| 8 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bright | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 day | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 day | cop |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 keeps | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 living | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 living | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 living | aux |
| 22 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 know | ccomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 spotted | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 spotted | cc |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 spotted | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 blade | det |
| 27 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spotted | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 spotted | aux:pass |
| 29 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 keeps | parataxis |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 blood | case |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spotted | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spotted | punct |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sign | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 sign | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 sign | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 sign | det |
| 37 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spotted | parataxis |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 dead | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 dead | nsubj |
| 40 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 dead | cop |
| 41 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sign | acl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 weep | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 weep | cc |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 weep | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 weep | aux |
| 46 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 sign | parataxis |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 me | case |
| 48 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 weep | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | knife | bright, long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | knife | as day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | live | present · progressive | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | spot a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | the blade | with blood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | future | knife | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | present | I | a sign not said here | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | weep | shall | you | for me | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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