The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 65
"My father," answered Scheherazade, "it is you who have to provide the Sultan daily with a fresh wife, and I implore you, by all the affection you bear me, to allow the honour to fall upon me."
Who acts: father, practice, Scheherazade, honour · What happens: answer, be, have, provide, implore, bear · To what, where: Scheherazade, Sultan, father, honour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, practice, Scheherazade, honour), 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 father | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Scheherazade | Scheherazade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 you | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 you | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 you | cop |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 provide | mark |
| 16 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sultan | det |
| 18 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 provide | obj |
| 19 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 16 provide | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 wife | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 22 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wife | amod |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 provide | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 implore | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 implore | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 implore | nsubj |
| 27 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 implore | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bear | punct |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 affection | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 affection | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 affection | det |
| 33 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bear | obl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 bear | nsubj |
| 35 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 implore | conj |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 bear | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 allow | punct |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 allow | mark |
| 39 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 bear | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 honour | det |
| 41 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 allow | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 fall | mark |
| 43 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 allow | xcomp |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 me | case |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 fall | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My father | Scheherazade | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | practice | Scheherazade | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Scheherazade | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | provide in a quote | to-infinitive | Scheherazade not said here | the Sultan | with a fresh wife; daily property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient with wife=Theme | |||
| 5 | implore in a quote | present | My father = father | Scheherazade | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | bear in a quote | present | Scheherazade | My father = father | by all affection | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 7 | allow in a quote | to-infinitive | Scheherazade not said here | the honour | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer honour=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | fall not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the honour not said here | upon My father = father | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon i=Location |
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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