The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 53
"Madam," said the princess, "I perceive that your Majesty wishes to make game of me, but I can assure you that I will never marry anyone except the charming young man whom I saw last night.
Who acts: Madam, Majesty · What happens: say, perceive, wish, make, assure, not marry · To what, where: princess, game, you, anyone, charming young man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Madam, Majesty), 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 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 perceive | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 perceive | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 perceive | nsubj |
| 11 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 wishes | mark |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wishes | nsubj |
| 15 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 perceive | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wishes | ccomp |
| 18 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 game | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 assure | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 assure | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 assure | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 assure | aux |
| 25 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 perceive | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 assure | iobj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 marry | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 marry | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 marry | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 marry | advmod |
| 31 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 assure | advcl |
| 32 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 marry | obj |
| 33 | except | except | ADP | _ | 37 man | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 35 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 man | compound |
| 36 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 anyone | nmod |
| 38 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 saw | obj |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 saw | nsubj |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 man | acl:relcl |
| 41 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 night | amod |
| 42 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Madam | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perceive in a quote | present | Madam | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | your Majesty | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | game of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product | |||||
| 5 | assure in a quote | can | Madam | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | not marry in a quote | future | Madam | anyone | except the charming young man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | |||
| 7 | see in a quote | past | Madam | the charming young man | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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