The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 78
"I have sent for you," said the king, "to say that I wish you to marry.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, say, wish, marry · To what, where: you · 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 (king), 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 sent | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 wish | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 marry | mark |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wish | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | present · perfect | the king = king | for you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | the king = king | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the king = king not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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