The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 59
Then her women will say to me, "Respected lord and master, your wife and slave is before you waiting to be noticed.
Who acts: women, Respected lord · What happens: say, wait, notice · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (women, Respected lord), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 say | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 women | nmod:poss |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 say | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lord | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lord | punct |
| 10 | Respected | respected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lord | amod |
| 11 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waiting | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 master | cc |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lord | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wife | punct |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lord | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slave | cc |
| 18 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wife | conj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 waiting | aux |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 waiting | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 waiting | nsubj |
| 22 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 say | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 noticed | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 noticed | aux:pass |
| 25 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 waiting | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | future | wife's women | me | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | wait in a quote | present · progressive | Respected lord and master | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | notice in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | Respected lord and master not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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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