The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 78
I summoned you to judge between me and Danhasch.
Who acts: I · What happens: summon, judge · To what, where: you
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 summoned | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 judge | mark |
| 5 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 summoned | advcl |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 judge | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Danhasch | cc |
| 9 | Danhasch | Danhasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 me | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | I | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | judge | to-infinitive | I not said here | between me | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if 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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