The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 1
"But, my son," urged Fatima, "you surely do not wish to be the last of a race which has reigned so long and so gloriously over this kingdom?"
Who acts: son, you · What happens: urge, not wish, be, reign · To what, where: Fatima, race
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you), 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 | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 son | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 urged | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 urged | punct |
| 8 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Fatima | Fatima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 urged | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 16 wish | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wish | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wish | advmod |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 urged | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 last | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 last | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 last | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wish | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 race | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 race | det |
| 23 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 last | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 reigned | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 reigned | aux |
| 26 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 race | acl:relcl |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 long | advmod |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 reigned | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 kingdom | cc |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 gloriously | advmod |
| 31 | gloriously | gloriously | ADV | _ | 34 kingdom | advmod |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 kingdom | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 kingdom | det |
| 34 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 urged | conj |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 34 kingdom | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 kingdom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | urge | past | my son | Fatima | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatima=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | you | surely property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | of a race; last property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reign in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a race | long property | tree rules |
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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