The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 50
He will then embrace me as his son-in-law, and giving me his seat will place himself below me.
Who acts: vizir · What happens: embrace, give · To what, where: me, seat
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 (vizir), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 embrace | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 embrace | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 embrace | advmod |
| 4 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 embrace | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 law | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 law | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 embrace | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 place | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 place | cc |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 place | csubj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 giving | iobj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 seat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 place | aux |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 embrace | obl |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 20 place | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | below | below | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 place | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 embrace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | future | vizir | me | then | as law; place vizir below me obl | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | give | gerund | vizir's seat | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient seat=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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