The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 50
"Charming Maimoune," asked Danhasch, "may I inquire who and what is the prince of whom you speak?"
Who acts: Charming, Danhasch · What happens: ask, inquire, be, speak · To what, where: Danhasch, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Charming, Danhasch), 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 Charming | punct |
| 2 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Charming | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Danhasch | Danhasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquire | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquire | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 inquire | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 inquire | nsubj |
| 12 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 inquire | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prince | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 prince | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 prince | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 who | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 prince | nmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 speak | nsubj |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 whom | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquire | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Charming | Danhasch | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent danhasch=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other in a quote | may | Charming | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | Danhasch | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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