The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 97
Turning to the Sultan, her father, she said, "Sire, I have gained the battle, but it has cost me dear.
Who acts: princess · What happens: turn, say, gain, cost · To what, where: battle, princess · 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 (princess), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Sultan | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sultan | det |
| 4 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Sultan | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 Sire | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sire | punct |
| 13 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gained | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gained | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gained | aux |
| 17 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 Sire | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 battle | det |
| 19 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gained | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cost | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 cost | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cost | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cost | aux |
| 24 | cost | cost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 cost | iobj |
| 26 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cost | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | princess not said here | to the Sultan result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sultan=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gain in a quote | present · perfect | princess | the battle | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cost in a quote | present · perfect · passive | battle | princess | dear property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Value |
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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