The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 53
"Happy stranger, I keep my promise, and give you my daughter to wife, be you who you may.
Who acts: man, my · What happens: keep, give, be, promise · To what, where: Happy stranger, daughter, you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, my), 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 | _ | 3 stranger | punct |
| 2 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stranger | amod |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stranger | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 promise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wife | mark |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 you | punct |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 you | cop |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 give | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 may | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 who | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | man | Happy stranger | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | my daughter | you | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | promise in a quote | my | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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