The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 55
The prince thanked the king in the warmest and most respectful terms, and added: "As regards my person, your Majesty has rightly guessed that I am not an astrologer.
Who acts: prince, person · What happens: thank, add, guess, not be · To what, where: king, warmest terms, astrologer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince, person), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 terms | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 terms | det |
| 8 | warmest | warm | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 terms | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 respectful | cc |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 respectful | advmod |
| 11 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 warmest | conj |
| 12 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thanked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 added | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 added | cc |
| 15 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 guessed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 guessed | punct |
| 18 | As | as | ADP | _ | 19 regards | case |
| 19 | regards | regards | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 27 guessed | obl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 person | nmod:poss |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 guessed | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Majesty | punct |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 person | appos |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 guessed | aux |
| 26 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 27 guessed | advmod |
| 27 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 added | parataxis |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 astrologer | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 astrologer | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 astrologer | cop |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 astrologer | advmod |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 astrologer | det |
| 33 | astrologer | astrologer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 guessed | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the prince | the king | the warmest terms | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | guess in a quote | present · perfect | my person | as regards; rightly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | the prince = prince | a astrologer | 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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