The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 98
She asked what reasons he could have for his objections to obey.
Who acts: Fatima, reasons, son · What happens: ask, have, obey, object · 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 (Fatima, reasons, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 have | obj |
| 4 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 objections | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 objections | nmod:poss |
| 10 | objections | objection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 obey | mark |
| 12 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 objections | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Fatima | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | could | reasons | for son's objections | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | reasons not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | object | son | nom objection «communication 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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