The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 95

My father is going to take me to the palace to celebrate my marriage with the Sultan.

Who acts: father, my · What happens: go, take, celebrate, marry · To what, where: me, palace, marriage

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, my), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 celebrate	mark
12	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	advcl
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 marriage	nmod:poss
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 celebrate	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 Sultan	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sultan	det
17	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 celebrate	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	My father				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	to-infinitive	My father not said here	me	the palace		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to palace=Destination
3	celebrate	to-infinitive	My father not said here	my marriage		with the Sultan	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme
4	marry		my				nom marriage «state 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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