The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 102
My father will ask the hand of the daughter of some neighbouring sovereign, who will give his consent to our union.
Who acts: father, neighbouring sovereign · What happens: ask, neighbour, give, consent · To what, where: hand, consent, union
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, neighbouring sovereign), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sovereign | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 sovereign | det |
| 12 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sovereign | amod |
| 13 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sovereign | acl:relcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 consent | nmod:poss |
| 19 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 union | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 union | nmod:poss |
| 22 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | My father | the hand of the daughter of some neighbouring sovereign | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | future | some neighbouring sovereign | father's consent | our union | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Theme to union=Recipient | |||
| 4 | consent | father | nom consent «communication 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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