The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 58
Then he assembled his council, and having told them the sad state of things, added: "If any of you can succeed in curing the princess, I will give her to him in marriage, and he shall be my heir."
Who acts: king, any, I · What happens: assemble, have, tell, add, succeed, cure · To what, where: council, sad state, rights, things, princess, marriage · 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 (king, any, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 assembled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assembled | nsubj |
| 3 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 council | nmod:poss |
| 5 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assembled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 told | ccomp |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assembled | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 state | det |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 state | amod |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 state | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 added | punct |
| 17 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 things | acl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 succeed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 succeed | punct |
| 20 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 succeed | mark |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 succeed | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 any | nmod |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 succeed | aux |
| 25 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 assembled | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 curing | mark |
| 27 | curing | cure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 succeed | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 princess | det |
| 29 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 curing | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 give | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 give | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 give | aux |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 succeed | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 give | iobj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 give | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 marriage | case |
| 38 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 heir | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 heir | cc |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 heir | nsubj |
| 42 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 heir | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 heir | cop |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 heir | nmod:poss |
| 45 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assembled | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 heir | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 heir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | king | king's council | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | king not said here | the sad state of things | rights = right | tree rules | |||
| 4 | add speech: assert | participle | things not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | succeed a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | any | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | cure in a quote | gerund | any not said here | the princess | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer princess=Source | ||||
| 7 | give in a quote | future | I | Princess | marriage | to king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Recipient | ||
| 8 | is a in a quote | shall | king | my heir | 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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