The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 85
"Brave lady," answered the bird, "do not blame me for having joined my voice to those who did their best to preserve my freedom.
Who acts: Brave lady · What happens: answer, not blame, join, preserve · To what, where: bird, Brave lady, voice, freedom · 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 (Brave lady), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 2 | Brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blame | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 blame | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blame | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 blame | advmod |
| 13 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 blame | obj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 joined | mark |
| 16 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 joined | aux |
| 17 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 blame | advcl |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joined | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 joined | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 best | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 best | aux |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 best | nmod:poss |
| 25 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 those | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 preserve | mark |
| 27 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 best | csubj |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 29 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 preserve | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Brave lady | the bird | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not blame in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Brave lady not said here | Brave lady = lady | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | join in a quote | gerund · perfect | Brave lady not said here | my voice | to those | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent voice=Patient to that=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | preserve in a quote | to-infinitive | my freedom | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Beneficiary |
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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