The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 27
Oh, madam," returned he, "you have already given me too much, and I fear I may have been guilty of rudeness in not taking my departure at once.
Who acts: madam, I, my · What happens: return, give, fear, be, not take, depart · To what, where: man, you, guilty, departure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, I, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 madam | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 madam | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 given | advmod |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 returned | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 given | obj |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 given | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fear | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fear | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fear | nsubj |
| 20 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | conj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 guilty | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 guilty | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 guilty | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 guilty | cop |
| 25 | guilty | guilty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fear | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rudeness | case |
| 27 | rudeness | rudeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 guilty | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 30 taking | mark |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 taking | advmod |
| 30 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 fear | advcl |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 departure | nmod:poss |
| 32 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 taking | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 once | case |
| 34 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 taking | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return in a quote | past | madam | man | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | present · perfect · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | may · perfect | I | guilty | of rudeness | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not take | gerund | I not said here | my departure | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent departure=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 6 | depart | my | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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