The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 33
Do with me as you will--I am in your power--but I refuse to obey your cruel command."
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: do, be, refuse, not obey, command · To what, where: power, cruel command · 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, I, 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | obl |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 will | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 will | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | advcl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 power | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 power | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 power | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 power | nmod:poss |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 will | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 refuse | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 refuse | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 refuse | nsubj |
| 16 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 obey | mark |
| 18 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 refuse | xcomp |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 command | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 command | amod |
| 21 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obey | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | with me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | your power | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | refuse | present | I | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not obey | to-infinitive | I not said here | your cruel command | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 5 | command | your | nom command «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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