The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 45
"I have sent for you, Sindbad, because I need your services.
Who acts: Caliph, your · What happens: send, need, service · To what, where: Sindbad, services
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 (Caliph, your), 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 | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sindbad | punct |
| 8 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 need | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 need | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 need | nsubj |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 services | nmod:poss |
| 14 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 need | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | present · perfect | the Caliph = caliph | Sindbad | for you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | the Caliph = caliph | your services | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot service=Theme | ||||
| 3 | service in a quote | your | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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