The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 27
I can hardly think you are men of any position, whatever country you belong to.
Who acts: I, you, whatever · What happens: think, be, country, belong · To what, where: men, country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, you, whatever), 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 | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 men | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 men | cop |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 position | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 position | det |
| 10 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 country | punct |
| 12 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 country | nsubj |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 position | appos |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 belong | nsubj |
| 15 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 country | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 belong | case |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | can | I | hardly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | men | of any position | tree rules | |||
| 3 | country | whatever | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | belong | present | you | country not said here | 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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