The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 73
"Sire," he replied, "the prince is still very young for the cares of state.
Who acts: man, prince, state · What happens: reply, be, care · 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 (man, prince, state), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 young | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 young | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 young | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 young | cop |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 young | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 young | advmod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 cares | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cares | det |
| 17 | cares | care | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 young | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 state | case |
| 19 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cares | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the prince | still | for the cares of state; young property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | care in a quote | state | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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