The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 1
To which I replied, "Master, I thank you, and wish you all prosperity.
Who acts: I · What happens: reply, thank, wish · To what, where: Master, you, prosperity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 replied | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Master | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Master | punct |
| 7 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 thank | nsubj |
| 10 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 thank | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wish | cc |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thank | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | iobj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 prosperity | det |
| 17 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wish | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | I | Master | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to which=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | I | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | I not said here | all prosperity | you | 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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