The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 7
"I cannot quite agree with you," he replied; "even the little that I have seen I admire greatly, and I will reserve my judgment until you have shown me the whole."
Who acts: Highness, you, my · What happens: not agree, reply, see, admire, reserve, show · To what, where: little, judgment, Highness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Highness, you, my), 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 | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 agree | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 agree | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 agree | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 agree | advmod |
| 6 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 agree | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agree | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 little | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 little | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 little | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 little | advcl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 admire | nsubj |
| 23 | admire | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | conj |
| 24 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 23 admire | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 reserve | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 reserve | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 reserve | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 reserve | aux |
| 29 | reserve | reserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 agree | conj |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 judgment | nmod:poss |
| 31 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reserve | obj |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 35 shown | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 shown | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 shown | aux |
| 35 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 reserve | advcl |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 shown | obj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 whole | det |
| 38 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 shown | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not agree speech: agree in a quote | can | Highness | with you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Highness | the little | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Highness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | admire in a quote | present | Highness | greatly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | reserve in a quote | future | Highness | my judgment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme | ||||
| 6 | show in a quote | present · perfect | you | Highness | whole property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 7 | judge in a quote | my | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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