The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 29
He then desired the prince to relate the whole story to him.
Who acts: king · What happens: desire, relate · To what, where: prince, whole story, king
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 desired | advmod |
| 3 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desired | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 relate | mark |
| 7 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 desired | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 story | amod |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 relate | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 relate | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | king | the prince | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | |||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive | king not said here | the whole story | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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