The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 76
This would attach him to his home, and your Majesty might give him a share in your counsels, so that he might gradually learn how to wear a crown, which you can give up to him whenever you find him capable of wearing it."
Who acts: This, Majesty, you · What happens: attach, give, learn, wear, give up, find · To what, where: Majesty, share, man, counsels, crown
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 (This, Majesty, you), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 attach | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 attach | aux |
| 3 | attach | attach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 attach | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attach | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attach | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 share | det |
| 16 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 counsels | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 counsels | nmod:poss |
| 19 | counsels | counsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 share | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 learn | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 learn | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 learn | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 learn | aux |
| 25 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 26 learn | advmod |
| 26 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | conj |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 wear | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 wear | mark |
| 29 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 learn | xcomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 crown | det |
| 31 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wear | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 give | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 give | obj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 give | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 give | aux |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 crown | acl:relcl |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 give | compound:prt |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 give | obl |
| 40 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 find | advmod |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 find | nsubj |
| 42 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 give | advcl |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 find | obj |
| 44 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 find | xcomp |
| 45 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 46 wearing | mark |
| 46 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 capable | advcl |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 wearing | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attach | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 attach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | would | This | Majesty | to Majesty's home | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient to home=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | give | might | your Majesty | a share | man | your counsels | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient share=Theme | ||
| 3 | learn | might | Majesty | gradually property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wear | to-infinitive | Majesty not said here | a crown | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give up | can | you | a crown | Majesty | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 6 | find | present | you | Majesty | capable, whenever property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 7 | wear | gerund | you not said here | crown | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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