The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 94
"My dear sister; I want your help in a very important affair.
Who acts: cost, your · What happens: want, help · To what, where: help, important affair
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 (cost, 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 | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sister | parataxis |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 help | nmod:poss |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 affair | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 affair | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 important | advmod |
| 13 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 affair | amod |
| 14 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | cost | your help | a important affair | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | |||
| 2 | help in a quote | your | nom help «act 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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