The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 31
"He is the master," said the good man, and desired that I should be sent for.
Who acts: captain, master · What happens: be, say, desire, send · To what, where: master, I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, master), 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 master | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 master | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 master | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 master | det |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desired | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 desired | cc |
| 14 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 sent | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sent | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | aux:pass |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 desired | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sent | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | captain | the master | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | desire | past | the master not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send | should · passive | I | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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