The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 47
When I shall have married his daughter I will give her ten of the best eunuchs that can be found for her service.
Who acts: I, cord · What happens: marry, give, find, service · To what, where: I, ten, cord, best eunuchs
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cord), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 married | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 married | aux |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 give | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 eunuchs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eunuchs | det |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 eunuchs | amod |
| 16 | eunuchs | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ten | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 found | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 eunuchs | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 service | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 service | nmod:poss |
| 23 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | shall · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | future | I | ten of the best eunuchs | cord | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ten=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | can · passive | the best eunuchs | for cord's service | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for service=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | service | cord | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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