The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 48
"Commander of the Faithful," I answered, "I am ready to do all that your Majesty commands, but I humbly pray you to remember that I am utterly disheartened by the unheard of sufferings I have undergone.
Who acts: Commander, Majesty · What happens: answer, be, do, command, pray, remember · To what, where: you, Commander, sufferings · 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, Majesty), 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 | _ | 2 Commander | punct |
| 2 | Commander | Commander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Faithful | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Faithful | det |
| 5 | Faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Commander | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Commander | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ready | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ready | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ready | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ready | cop |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 answered | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ready | xcomp |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 Majesty | det:predet |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 Majesty | det |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commands | nsubj |
| 21 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pray | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 pray | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 pray | nsubj |
| 25 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 26 pray | advmod |
| 26 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 pray | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 remember | mark |
| 29 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 pray | advcl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 disheartened | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 disheartened | nsubj |
| 32 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 disheartened | aux:pass |
| 33 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 34 disheartened | advmod |
| 34 | disheartened | dishearten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 remember | ccomp |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 unheard | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 unheard | det |
| 37 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 disheartened | xcomp |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 sufferings | case |
| 39 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 unheard | obl |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 undergone | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 undergone | aux |
| 42 | undergone | undergo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 sufferings | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Commander of the Faithful | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Commander of the Faithful = commander | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Commander of the Faithful = commander not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | command in a quote | present | your Majesty | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pray in a quote | present | Commander of the Faithful = commander | you | humbly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | remember in a quote | to-infinitive | Commander of the Faithful = commander not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | dishearten in a quote | present · passive | Commander of the Faithful = commander | unheard, utterly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | undergo in a quote | present · perfect | Commander of the Faithful = commander | sufferings not said here | tree 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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