The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 76
It is possible that you may succeed, but all the same, the risk is great."
Who acts: number, you, risk · What happens: be, succeed
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 (number, you, risk), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 possible | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 possible | cop |
| 3 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 succeed | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 succeed | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeed | aux |
| 7 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 possible | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 same | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 same | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 same | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 possible | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 risk | det |
| 15 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 great | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 great | cop |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 possible | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 possible | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | number | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | succeed | may | you | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | number not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | the risk | great 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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