The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 34
"I see," said the genius, "that you have both made up your minds to brave me, but I will give you a sample of what you may expect."
Who acts: man, you, your · What happens: see, be, make up, give, expect, mind · To what, where: genius, you, sample · 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 (man, you, 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 genius | csubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 genius | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 genius | det |
| 8 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 genius | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 genius | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux |
| 14 | both | both | ADV | _ | 15 made | advmod |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 genius | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 made | compound:prt |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 minds | nmod:poss |
| 18 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 brave | mark |
| 20 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | xcomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 brave | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 give | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | parataxis |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sample | det |
| 29 | sample | sample | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 what | case |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 sample | nmod |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 expect | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 expect | aux |
| 34 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 what | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the genius | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make up in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | that obl; both, brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | man | a sample | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sample=Theme | |||
| 5 | expect in a quote | may | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mind in a quote | your | nom mind «cognition 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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