The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 42
I am convinced that some day or other I shall find you useful as well as agreeable."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, find · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 convinced | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 convinced | cop |
| 3 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 other | cc |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | conj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 convinced | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 find | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 17 agreeable | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 17 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 useful | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 convinced | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 convinced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | convinced property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | shall | I | you | day | useful property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
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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