The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 87

For myself, I dread him so little that I mean to break his talisman in pieces!

Who acts: I · What happens: dread, mean, break · To what, where: man, talisman, pieces

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 (I), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 myself	case
2	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 dread	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 myself	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 dread	nsubj
5	dread	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dread	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dread	obl:unmarked
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 mean	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 mean	nsubj
11	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dread	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 break	mark
13	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mean	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 talisman	nmod:poss
15	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 break	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 pieces	case
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 break	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 dread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dread	present	I	man		for myself; little obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus for myself=Attribute
2	mean	present	I				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	break not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	man's talisman	pieces		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talisman=Patient

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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