The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 113
The next day the steward asked to speak to me in private.
Who acts: steward · What happens: ask, speak · To what, where: me, private · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 steward | det |
| 5 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 speak | mark |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 speak | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 private | case |
| 12 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 speak | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the steward | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the steward not said here | me | private | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-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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