The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 23
For those stones are in reality men like yourself, who have been on the same quest, and have failed, as I fear that you may fail also.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, have, fail, fear · To what, where: same quest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 stones | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 stones | det |
| 3 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 men | obl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 men | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 6 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | compound |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 yourself | case |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 men | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 who | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 men | appos |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 who | acl:relcl |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 have | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 quest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 quest | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 quest | amod |
| 17 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 been | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 failed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 failed | cc |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 failed | aux |
| 21 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 quest | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fear | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 fear | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 fear | nsubj |
| 25 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 failed | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 fail | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 fail | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fail | aux |
| 29 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fear | ccomp |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 fail | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | in reality men; for that stones; like yourself | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fail | present · perfect | the same quest not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fear | present | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | fail | may | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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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