The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 38
"This, Sire, is the story which I was obliged to tell to satisfy your highness.
Who acts: Sire · What happens: be, oblige, tell, satisfy · To what, where: story, highness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sire), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sire | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Sire | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sire | punct |
| 4 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sire | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 obliged | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 obliged | aux:pass |
| 12 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 obliged | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 satisfy | mark |
| 16 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tell | xcomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 highness | nmod:poss |
| 18 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 satisfy | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Sire | the story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | oblige in a quote | past · passive | the story | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | satisfy not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | your highness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus highness=Experiencer |
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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