The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 62
"You need not be shocked," said the king; "this is one of my emirs who asks your hand in marriage."
Who acts: king, this, emirs · What happens: not shock, say, be, ask · To what, where: You, one, hand, 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, this, emirs), 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 | _ | 6 shocked | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 shocked | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shocked | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 shocked | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shocked | aux:pass |
| 6 | shocked | shock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shocked | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shocked | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 one | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | cop |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 emirs | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 emirs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | emirs | emir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 asks | nsubj |
| 21 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 emirs | acl:relcl |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asks | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 marriage | case |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asks | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shock in a quote | present · passive | You | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | one | of my emirs | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | my emirs | your hand | marriage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=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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