The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 45
He looked anxiously to Zobeida, who nodded her head and said, "You can go; and take care we never meet again."
Who acts: Highness, Zobeida, You, we · What happens: look, nod, say, go, take, not meet · To what, where: Zobeida, head, care · 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 (Highness, Zobeida, You, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Zobeida | case |
| 5 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nodded | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 nodded | nsubj |
| 8 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Zobeida | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nodded | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nodded | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 21 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 meet | nsubj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 meet | advmod |
| 24 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | parataxis |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 meet | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Highness | Zobeida | anxiously property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | nod | past | Zobeida | sister's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Zobeida not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | can | You | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not meet in a quote | present | we | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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