The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 88
Awful though you think him, he shall feel the weight of my arm, and I herewith take a solemn vow to stamp out the whole race."
Who acts: you, man, I · What happens: think, feel, take, stamp out · To what, where: man, weight, solemn vow, whole race
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, man, 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 | Awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feel | amod |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 think | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 think | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | aux |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weight | det |
| 11 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 arm | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weight | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 18 | herewith | herewith | ADV | _ | 19 take | advmod |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 vow | det |
| 21 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vow | amod |
| 22 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 stamp | mark |
| 24 | stamp | stamp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 take | advcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 stamp | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 race | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 race | amod |
| 28 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stamp | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | you | man | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | shall | man | the weight of my arm | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | present | I | a solemn vow | herewith property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme | |||
| 4 | stamp out | to-infinitive | I not said here | the whole race | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent race=Destination |
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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