The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 54
You must know where he is, so pray send for him."
Who acts: You, Majesty · What happens: know, be, pray · To what, where: send · 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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 know | ccomp |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 where | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 where | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pray | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 pray | advmod |
| 9 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | conj |
| 10 | send | send | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pray | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pray | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Majesty | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pray | infinitive | You not said here | send | for Majesty | 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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