The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 18
One day the king sent for me and said, "Sindbad, I am going to ask a favour of you.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, say, go, ask, favour · To what, where: Sindbad, favour, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sindbad | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sindbad | punct |
| 12 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ask | mark |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 favour | det |
| 20 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 favour | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | day | for me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | Sindbad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the king = king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | the king = king not said here | a favour of you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | favour in a quote | you | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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