The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 14

My name is Agib, and I am the son of a king called Cassib, who reigned over a large kingdom, which had for its capital one of the finest seaport towns in the world.

Who acts: name, I, Cassib, large kingdom, My · What happens: be, call, reign, have, name · To what, where: Agib, son, king, large kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, I, Cassib, large kingdom), 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 name	nmod:poss
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Agib	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Agib	cop
4	Agib	Agib	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 son	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 son	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 son	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Agib	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 king	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 king	acl
15	Cassib	Cassib	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 called	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reigned	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 reigned	nsubj
18	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Cassib	acl:relcl
19	over	over	ADP	_	22 kingdom	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 kingdom	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kingdom	amod
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reigned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kingdom	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 one	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 one	nmod:poss
28	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 towns	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 towns	det
32	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 towns	amod
33	seaport	seaport	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 towns	compound
34	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 towns	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Agib	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	My name	Agib			tree rules
2	is a	present	I	the son		of a king	tree rules
3	call	participle		a king not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reign	past	Cassib		a large kingdom		tree rules
5	have	past	a large kingdom			for name's capital one of the finest seaport towns in the world	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	name		My				nom name «communication 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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