The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 62
"But, bird," objected the princess, "you know how dearly we love each other; will not all this spoil our friendship?"
Who acts: bird, you, we · What happens: object, know, love, not all · To what, where: princess, each, spoil · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bird, you, we), 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 | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 objected | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 objected | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 7 | objected | object | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 objected | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 objected | parataxis |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 dearly | advmod |
| 15 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 17 love | advmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 love | nsubj |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | ccomp |
| 18 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 17 love | obj |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 all | punct |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 all | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 all | advmod |
| 23 | all | all | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 objected | parataxis |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 spoil | det |
| 25 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 all | obj |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 27 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 all | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 all | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | object speech: other | past | bird | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | love in a quote | present | we | each | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not all in a quote | future | this spoil | 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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