The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 46
I have chosen you to bear a letter and a gift to the King of Serendib in return for his message of friendship."
Who acts: I · What happens: choose, bear · To what, where: you, letter, return
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 chosen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | aux |
| 3 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 chosen | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bear | mark |
| 6 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chosen | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 letter | det |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bear | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gift | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gift | det |
| 11 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letter | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gift | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Serendib | case |
| 16 | Serendib | Serendib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 return | case |
| 18 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bear | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 message | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 message | nmod:poss |
| 21 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bear | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 friendship | case |
| 23 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 message | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chosen | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · perfect | I | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive | I not said here | a letter and a gift to the King of Serendib | return | for Serendib's message of friendship | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus for message=Attribute |
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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