The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 81
At length he said: "Sire, I beg you to pardon me if I am unable to reply as you might wish.
Who acts: prince, you · What happens: say, beg, pardon, be, reply, wish · To what, where: length, you, prince · 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 (prince, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sire | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sire | punct |
| 7 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | nsubj |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pardon | mark |
| 13 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beg | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pardon | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 unable | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 unable | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 unable | cop |
| 18 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pardon | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 reply | mark |
| 20 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 unable | xcomp |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 wish | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 wish | aux |
| 24 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 reply | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | prince | length | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | prince | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pardon not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | prince not said here | prince | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | prince | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | wish in a quote | might | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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