The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 103
All I can do is to give you bare life; you will have to learn what happens to people who interfere with me."
Who acts: I, All, you, people · What happens: do, be, have, learn, happen, interfere · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, All, you, people), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 give | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 life | amod |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 learn | mark |
| 16 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 happens | nsubj |
| 18 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 learn | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 happens | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 interfere | nsubj |
| 22 | interfere | interfere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 people | acl:relcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 interfere | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | All | you | give property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | learn | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | happen | present | to people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | interfere | present | people | with me | tree rules |
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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