The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 30

"Certainly," I answered, taking the sabre in my hands, and making a sign to the princess to fear nothing, as it was my own life that I was about to sacrifice, and not hers.

Who acts: I, sign, that · What happens: answer, take, make, fear, be, sacrifice · To what, where: sabre, hands, sign, nothing, own life

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, sign, that), 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 answered	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 answered	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sabre	det
10	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 making	cc
16	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 taking	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sign	det
18	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 princess	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 princess	det
21	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 fear	mark
23	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 making	advcl
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 fear	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 life	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 life	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 life	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 life	cop
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 life	amod
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fear	parataxis
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 about	nsubj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 about	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 about	cop
35	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 life	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 sacrifice	mark
37	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 about	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hers	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hers	cc
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 hers	advmod
41	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 answered	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	I			certainly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	gerund	I not said here	the sabre	my hands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sabre=Value in hand=Location
3	make	gerund	I not said here	a sign		to the princess	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
4	fear	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	is a	past	sign	my own life			tree rules
6	is	past	that			about property	tree rules
7	sacrifice	to-infinitive	that not said here				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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