The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 25
"Heaven preserve you," said I, "and send you a long life!"
Who acts: Heaven, I · What happens: preserve, say, send · To what, where: you, long life · 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 (Heaven, I), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
| 2 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 preserve | nsubj |
| 3 | preserve | preserve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 preserve | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 preserve | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 send | cc |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 preserve | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 send | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 preserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve in a quote | infinitive | Heaven | you | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | infinitive | Heaven not said here | a long life | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination life=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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