The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 20
You, like me, appear to be a stranger," I said.
Who acts: You, other calender · What happens: appear, be, say · To what, where: stranger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, other calender), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 appear | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 You | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 appear | punct |
| 6 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stranger | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stranger | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stranger | det |
| 10 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appear | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appear | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | infinitive | You | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | You not said here | a stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | this other calender = calendar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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