The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 18
"Is this," continued Zobeida, growing more angry every moment, "is this the return you make for the hospitality I have shown you?
Who acts: you, Madam · What happens: be, grow, make, show · To what, where: return, hospitality, you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Madam), 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 continued | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 continued | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Is | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 return | csubj |
| 7 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 growing | punct |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 continued | advcl |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 angry | advmod |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 growing | xcomp |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 angry | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 return | cop |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 return | det |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 return | det |
| 19 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 return | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 hospitality | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hospitality | det |
| 24 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 shown | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 shown | aux |
| 27 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 hospitality | acl:relcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 shown | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | continue property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this return | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present | you | this return not said here | for the hospitality | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent return=Product for hospitality=Asset | |||
| 5 | show in a quote | present · perfect | Madam | the hospitality not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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