The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 44
"But, your Majesty," said I, "dare I ask if this law applies to foreigners also?"
Who acts: Majesty, law · What happens: say, ask, apply · To what, where: dare · 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 (Majesty, law), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dare | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dare | punct |
| 12 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dare | acl:relcl |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 applies | mark |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 law | det |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 applies | nsubj |
| 18 | applies | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 foreigners | case |
| 20 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 applies | obl |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 applies | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | your Majesty | dare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | your Majesty = majesty | dare not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent dare=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | apply a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this law | to foreigners | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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