The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 61
The emir accepted the condition, and the king led him to the princess, who, veiling her face, remarked, "I am surprised, sire, that you should bring an unknown man into my presence."
Who acts: emir, king, princess, I, you · What happens: accept, lead, veil, remark, be, bring · To what, where: condition, emir, princess, face, unknown man, presence · 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 (emir, king, princess, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emir | det |
| 2 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 condition | det |
| 5 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 led | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | nsubj |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 led | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 veiling | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 veiling | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 veiling | punct |
| 18 | veiling | veil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 princess | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 veiling | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 remarked | punct |
| 22 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 veiling | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 surprised | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 surprised | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 surprised | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 surprised | cop |
| 27 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 remarked | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sire | punct |
| 29 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 surprised | vocative |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bring | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 bring | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 bring | nsubj |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 bring | aux |
| 34 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 led | conj |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 36 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bring | obj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 presence | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 presence | nmod:poss |
| 40 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bring | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the emir | the condition | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the king | emir | the princess | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to princess=Destination | |||
| 3 | veil | gerund | the princess | Princess's face | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination | ||||
| 4 | remark speech: assert | participle | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | I | sire vocative; surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | should | you | a unknown man | my presence | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme into presence=Destination |
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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