The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 83
Possibly I may not always be in this mind, but I certainly feel that it will require some time to induce me to take the step which your Majesty desires."
Who acts: I, idea, Majesty · What happens: not be, feel, require, induce, take, desire · To what, where: mind, me, step
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 (I, idea, Majesty), 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 | Possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 9 mind | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mind | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 mind | advmod |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 mind | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mind | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 mind | det |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feel | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feel | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 feel | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 14 feel | advmod |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 require | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 require | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 require | aux |
| 18 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 feel | advcl |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 require | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 induce | mark |
| 22 | induce | induce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 time | acl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 induce | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 induce | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 step | det |
| 27 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 desires | obj |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 desires | nsubj |
| 31 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 step | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 feel | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | may | I | this mind | always, possibly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | present | I | certainly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | require | future | idea | time | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | induce | to-infinitive | idea not said here | me | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | idea not said here | the step | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 6 | desire | present | your Majesty | the step | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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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