The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 91
I believe she would like to kill him if she could, for she is an enchantress."
Who acts: I, story · What happens: believe, like, kill, be · To what, where: mistress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, story), 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 | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 kill | mark |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 could | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 could | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 enchantress | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 enchantress | case |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enchantress | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 enchantress | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 enchantress | det |
| 17 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | like | would | story | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | story not said here | mistress | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | story | for a enchantress | 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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