The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 80
"How have you made up your mind," he asked, "to sacrifice your own daughter to me?"
Who acts: you, mind, your · What happens: make up, ask, sacrifice, mind · To what, where: mind, own daughter · 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 (you, mind, 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 | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 made | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 made | compound:prt |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sacrifice | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sacrifice | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sacrifice | mark |
| 16 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daughter | amod |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sacrifice | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sacrifice | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up in a quote | present · perfect | you | your mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | mind | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sacrifice not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | your own daughter | mind | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | 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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