The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 46
So turning to the chief of the eunuchs he said, "Go and beg my daughter, Queen of Beauty, to come here.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: turn, say, go, beg, come · To what, where: chief, Queen, daughter · 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 (Sultan), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 turning | advmod |
| 2 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 chief | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turning | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 eunuchs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eunuchs | det |
| 8 | eunuchs | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chief | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 13 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beg | cc |
| 15 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 Go | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beg | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Queen | punct |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Go | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Beauty | case |
| 21 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Queen | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 Go | conj |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Sultan not said here | the chief of the eunuchs | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to chief=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Queen of Beauty | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request in a quote | infinitive | my daughter | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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