The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 19
"Prince, I am now an old man, and unfortunately I have no son to whom to leave my kingdom.
Who acts: Prince, King · What happens: be, have, leave · To what, where: old man, son, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, King), 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 | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | cop |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 man | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 12 | unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 14 have | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 son | det |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 leave | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 leave | mark |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 son | acl:relcl |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Prince | a old man | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | King | no son | unfortunately property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 3 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | my kingdom | no son | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to whom=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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