The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 26
You know what you have to do, and what to avoid, but if you are wise you will think of it no more, but return whence you have come."
Who acts: You · What happens: know, have, do, avoid, be, think · To what, where: more
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 avoid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 avoid | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 avoid | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 avoid | mark |
| 12 | avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wise | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 wise | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 wise | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wise | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wise | cop |
| 18 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 avoid | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 think | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 think | aux |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wise | csubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 think | obl |
| 24 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 think | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 return | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 return | cc |
| 28 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 29 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 come | advmod |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 come | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 come | aux |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 return | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | avoid | to-infinitive | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent what=Location | ||||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | future | you | more | of Water | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | |||
| 7 | return | present | You not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | come | present · perfect | you | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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