The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 46
No, no, our brother must have met his death by some accident, or want of precaution, and to-morrow I will start on the same quest."
Who acts: brother, I · What happens: meet, want, start, die · To what, where: death, same quest
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 (brother, 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 met | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 met | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 met | aux |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 death | nmod:poss |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 accident | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 accident | det |
| 14 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 want | cc |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 met | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 precaution | case |
| 19 | precaution | precaution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 want | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 start | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 start | cc |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 morrow | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 start | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 start | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 start | aux |
| 27 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 met | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 quest | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 quest | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 quest | amod |
| 31 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 start | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | must · perfect | our brother | brother's death | by some accident | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | want | infinitive | our brother not said here | of precaution | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | start | future | I | the same quest | to morrow | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | die | brother | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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