The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 87
Some day you will put me to the proof, for I know who you are better than you do yourself.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: put, know, be, do · To what, where: me, yourself · 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 (you, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 proof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 proof | det |
| 9 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 better | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 better | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 better | cop |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 know | ccomp |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 better | advcl |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | you | me | day | to the proof | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal | ||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | present | you | yourself | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Eventuality |
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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