The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 71
This will deliver her so completely that Maimoum, the son of Dimdim, will never dare to approach her again."
Who acts: This · What happens: deliver, not dare, not approach · To what, where: princess
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 deliver | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 deliver | aux |
| 3 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 deliver | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 completely | advmod |
| 6 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 3 deliver | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 dare | mark |
| 8 | Maimoum | Maimoum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dare | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 son | det |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Maimoum | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Dimdim | case |
| 13 | Dimdim | Dimdim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Maimoum | punct |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 dare | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 dare | advmod |
| 17 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 deliver | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 approach | mark |
| 19 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dare | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 approach | obj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 approach | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deliver | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | future | This | princess | completely property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 2 | not dare | future | This not said here | Maimoum vocative | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not approach | to-infinitive | This not said here | princess | again | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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