The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 91
"Sire," replied the vizir, "much is gained by patience, and your Majesty might regret any violence.
Who acts: Sire, patience, Majesty · What happens: reply, gain, regret · To what, where: vizir, much, violence · 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 (Sire, patience, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vizir | det |
| 7 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gained | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 much | punct |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gained | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gained | aux:pass |
| 12 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 vizir | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 patience | case |
| 14 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gained | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 regret | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 regret | cc |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 regret | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 regret | aux |
| 20 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 violence | det |
| 22 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 regret | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | the vizir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gain in a quote | present · passive | patience | much | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | regret in a quote | might | your Majesty | any violence | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer violence=Stimulus |
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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