The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 33
"Further, my lord, in Serendib no judge is needed, for to the king himself his people come for justice."
Who acts: king · What happens: need, come · To what, where: lord
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 needed | punct |
| 2 | Further | further | ADV | _ | 12 needed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Further | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Serendib | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Serendib | case |
| 8 | Serendib | Serendib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lord | appos |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 judge | det |
| 10 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 needed | aux:pass |
| 12 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 come | nsubj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 people | nmod:poss |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 himself | nsubj |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 needed | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 justice | case |
| 23 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 needed | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present · passive | my lord | further property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | king | for the king; for justice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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