The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 90
If you do, it will be the ruin of both of us," said she; "I know genii much better than you."
Who acts: you, talisman, gallery, I · What happens: do, be, say, know · To what, where: ruin · 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, talisman, gallery, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ruin | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ruin | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ruin | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ruin | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ruin | det |
| 9 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 both | case |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 said | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 both | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 both | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 both | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ruin | parataxis |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ruin | conj |
| 22 | genii | genii | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 better | nsubj |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 better | advmod |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 better | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ruin | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ruin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | future | talisman | the ruin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | gallery | of both | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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