The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 25
"You condemn yourself by your refusal," said the genius; then turning to me, he added, "and you, do you not know her?"
Who acts: You, genius, man, your · What happens: condemn, say, turn, add, not know, refuse · To what, where: yourself, me, genius · 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 (You, genius, man, your), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 condemn | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 condemn | nsubj |
| 3 | condemn | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 condemn | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 refusal | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 refusal | nmod:poss |
| 7 | refusal | refusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 condemn | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 condemn | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 condemn | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 genius | det |
| 12 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 turning | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 turning | advmod |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 turning | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 added | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 added | nsubj |
| 20 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turning | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 added | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 added | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 you | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 added | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 know | aux |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 know | nsubj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 know | advmod |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 turning | parataxis |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 know | obj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn in a quote | present | You | yourself | by your refusal | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the genius | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | me | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | man | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | genius | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | refuse in a quote | your | nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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