The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 21
As the king's will was law I accepted the charming bride he presented to me, and lived happily with her.
Who acts: I, king · What happens: be, accept, present, live · To what, where: charming bride, me
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 (I, 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 law | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 law | aux |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 law | cop |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 accepted | nsubj |
| 9 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bride | det |
| 11 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bride | compound |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 presented | nsubj |
| 14 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bride | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 presented | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lived | cc |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 accepted | conj |
| 20 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lived | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | as the king's law | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | accept | past | I | the charming bride | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | present | past | king | the charming bride not said here | me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | live | past | I not said here | with bride; happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
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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