The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 88
Meanwhile, tell me what I can do, and I will obey you."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, do, obey · To what, where: me, you · 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 tell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 obey | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 obey | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 obey | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 obey | aux |
| 13 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 obey | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | meanwhile property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | obey | future | I | you | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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