The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 96
Pray speak very seriously to him on this subject, and make him realize that he will most seriously displease me if he remains obstinate, and that he will certainly regret the measures I shall be obliged to take to enforce my will."
Who acts: Pray, son · What happens: speak, make, realize, displease, remain, regret · To what, where: subject, son, me, measures, I · 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 (Pray, son), 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 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 seriously | advmod |
| 4 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 2 speak | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seriously | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 subject | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 subject | det |
| 9 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 speak | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | realize | realize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 displease | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 displease | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 displease | aux |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 seriously | advmod |
| 19 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 20 displease | advmod |
| 20 | displease | displease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 realize | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 displease | obj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 remains | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 remains | nsubj |
| 24 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 displease | advcl |
| 25 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 remains | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 regret | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 regret | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 regret | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 regret | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 regret | aux |
| 31 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 32 regret | advmod |
| 32 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 measures | det |
| 34 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 regret | obj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 obliged | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 obliged | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 obliged | aux:pass |
| 38 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 measures | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 take | mark |
| 40 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 obliged | xcomp |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 enforce | mark |
| 42 | enforce | enforce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 take | csubj |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 will | nmod:poss |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 enforce | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Pray | this subject | seriously property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | Pray not said here | son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | realize | infinitive | son not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | displease | future | son | me | seriously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | remain a condition, not said to happen | present | son | obstinate property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | regret | future | son | the measures | certainly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer measure=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | oblige | shall · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 8 | take | to-infinitive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | enforce | to-infinitive | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=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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