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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 25

"Commander of the Faithful," I replied, again bowing humbly before him, "I can assure your Majesty that he has in no way exaggerated his wealth and grandeur.

Who acts: Commander · What happens: reply, bow, assure, have, exaggerate · To what, where: Majesty, wealth, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commander), 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

punctnsubjcasedetnmodpunctpunctnsubjpunctadvmodadvcladvmodcaseoblpunctpunctnsubjauxconjnmod:possobjmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblccompnmod:possobjccconjpunctroot"PUNCTCommanderPROPNofADPtheDETFaithfulADJ,PUNCT"PUNCTIPRONrepliedVERB,PUNCTagainADVbowingVERBhumblyADVbeforeADPhimPRON,PUNCT"PUNCTIPRONcanAUXassureVERByourPRONMajestyNOUNthatSCONJhePRONhasVERBinADPnoDETwayNOUNexaggeratedVERBhisPRONwealthNOUNandCCONJgrandeurNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Commanderpunct
2CommanderCommanderPROPNNumber=Sing9 repliednsubj
3ofofADP_5 Faithfulcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Faithfuldet
5FaithfulfaithfulADJDegree=Pos2 Commandernmod
6,,PUNCT_2 Commanderpunct
7""PUNCT_9 repliedpunct
8IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 repliednsubj
9repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10,,PUNCT_12 bowingpunct
11againagainADV_12 bowingadvmod
12bowingbowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 repliedadvcl
13humblyhumblyADV_12 bowingadvmod
14beforebeforeADP_15 himcase
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 bowingobl
16,,PUNCT_20 assurepunct
17""PUNCT_20 assurepunct
18IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 assurensubj
19cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin20 assureaux
20assureassureVERBVerbForm=Inf9 repliedconj
21youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 Majestynmod:poss
22MajestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing20 assureobj
23thatthatSCONJ_25 hasmark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 hasnsubj
25hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 assureadvcl
26ininADP_28 waycase
27nonoDETPronType=Neg28 waydet
28waywayNOUNNumber=Sing29 exaggeratedobl
29exaggeratedexaggerateVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 hasccomp
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 wealthnmod:poss
31wealthwealthNOUNNumber=Sing29 exaggeratedobj
32andandCCONJ_33 grandeurcc
33grandeurgrandeurNOUNNumber=Sing31 wealthconj
34..PUNCT_9 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastCommander of the Faithfulvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2bowgerundCommander of the Faithful not said herebefore Commander; againhumbly propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3assure in a quotecanCommander of the Faithful = commanderyour Majestyvn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient
4have in a quotepresentCommandertree rules
5exaggerate in a quotepastCommander not said hereCommander's wealth and grandeurno waytree rules

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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