The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 92
Why not wait another year and then inform the Prince in the midst of the assembled council that the good of the state demands his marriage?
Who acts: you, prince · What happens: not wait, inform, assemble, demand, marry · To what, where: Prince, marriage, midst
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 (you, prince), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wait | advmod |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 wait | advmod |
| 3 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 inform | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 inform | advmod |
| 8 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wait | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 inform | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 midst | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 midst | det |
| 13 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 demands | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 council | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 council | det |
| 16 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 council | amod |
| 17 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 midst | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 good | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 good | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 council | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 state | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 state | det |
| 23 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 good | obl |
| 24 | demands | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 inform | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 demands | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | imperative | you not said here | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | the Prince | then | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | |||
| 3 | assemble | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | present | prince's marriage | the midst of the assembled council | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme marriage=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | marry | prince | nom marriage «state transitive»: 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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