The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 87
At the end of a year the king took his son aside, and said: "Well, my son, have you changed your mind on the subject of marriage, or do you still refuse to obey my wish?"
Who acts: king, you, your, my · What happens: take, say, change, refuse, not obey, mind · To what, where: son, end, mind, subject, wish · 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, you, your, my), 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 | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Well | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Well | punct |
| 18 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 25 changed | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Well | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Well | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Well | punct |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 changed | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 changed | nsubj |
| 25 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mind | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 changed | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 subject | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 subject | det |
| 30 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 changed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 marriage | case |
| 32 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 subject | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 refuse | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 refuse | cc |
| 35 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 refuse | aux |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 refuse | nsubj |
| 37 | still | still | ADV | _ | 38 refuse | advmod |
| 38 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 obey | mark |
| 40 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 refuse | xcomp |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 wish | nmod:poss |
| 42 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 obey | obj |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | king's son | at the end of a year | aside property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent son=Theme clause=Attribute | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | change in a quote | present · perfect | you | your mind | the subject of marriage | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 4 | refuse in a quote | present · do-support | you | still | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not obey in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my wish | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mind in a quote | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | wish in a quote | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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