The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 54
I shall return home with the same pomp as I set out, and my wife will send an officer to compliment me on my visit to her father, and I shall confer on the officer the honour of a rich dress and a handsome gift.
Who acts: I, wife, my · What happens: return, set out, send, compliment, confer, visit · To what, where: officer, me, visit, rich dress
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, wife, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 return | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | aux |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 return | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pomp | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pomp | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pomp | amod |
| 8 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 set | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 send | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 send | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 send | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 send | aux |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 return | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 officer | det |
| 20 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 compliment | mark |
| 22 | compliment | compliment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 send | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 compliment | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 visit | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 visit | nmod:poss |
| 26 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 compliment | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 father | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 visit | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 confer | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 confer | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 confer | nsubj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 confer | aux |
| 34 | confer | confer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 return | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 officer | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 officer | det |
| 37 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 confer | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 honour | det |
| 39 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 officer | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 dress | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 dress | det |
| 42 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dress | amod |
| 43 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 honour | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 gift | cc |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 gift | det |
| 46 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 gift | amod |
| 47 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dress | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | shall | I | with the same pomp; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | future | my wife | a officer | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent officer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | compliment | to-infinitive | my wife not said here | me | my visit to wife's father | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 5 | confer | shall | I | on the officer and the honour of a rich dress and a handsome gift | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on officer=Topic | ||||
| 6 | visit | my | to wife's father | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 7 | honour | a rich dress and a handsome gift | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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