The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 57
I am myself a prince, my name is Camaralzaman, and my father is Schahzaman, King of the Isles of the Children of Khaledan."
Who acts: I, name, father, my · What happens: be, name · To what, where: myself, Camaralzaman, Schahzaman
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 (I, name, father, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 myself | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 myself | cop |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 myself | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Camaralzaman | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Camaralzaman | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Camaralzaman | cop |
| 10 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 myself | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Schahzaman | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Schahzaman | cc |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Schahzaman | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Schahzaman | cop |
| 16 | Schahzaman | Schahzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Camaralzaman | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 King | punct |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Schahzaman | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Isles | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Isles | det |
| 21 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 King | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Children | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Children | det |
| 24 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Isles | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Khaledan | case |
| 26 | Khaledan | Khaledan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Children | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Camaralzaman | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 myself | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my name | Camaralzaman and Schahzaman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | my father | Schahzaman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | my | nom name «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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