The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 85
He is very jealous, as you know, and will not suffer a man to come near me."
Who acts: gift, you · What happens: be, know, not suffer, come · To what, where: man
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 (gift, you), 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 | 4 jealous | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 jealous | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 jealous | advmod |
| 4 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 jealous | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 suffer | cc |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffer | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 suffer | advmod |
| 13 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 jealous | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffer | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 suffer | advcl |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 come | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jealous | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | gift | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not suffer | future | gift not said here | a man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | gift not said here | near me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near i=Location |
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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