The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 127
"To the first condition," I answered, "I agree with all my heart, and I will give you an ample dowry.
Who acts: I · What happens: answer, agree, give · To what, where: ample dowry, you · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 condition | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 condition | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 condition | amod |
| 5 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 condition | 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 agree | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 agree | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 agree | nsubj |
| 13 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 heart | det:predet |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 agree | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 agree | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dowry | det |
| 25 | ample | ample | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dowry | amod |
| 26 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | I | to the first condition | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree in a quote | present | I | with my heart | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with heart=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | I | a ample dowry | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dowry=Theme |
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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