The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 20
It has pleased Heaven to give me only one daughter, who possesses such great beauty and charm that I could only give her to a prince as highly born and as accomplished as yourself.
Who acts: kingdom, one daughter, I · What happens: have, give, possess, bear, accomplish · To what, where: pleased Heaven, one daughter, me, such great beauty, Heaven
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 (kingdom, one daughter, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Heaven | amod |
| 4 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 has | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 one | advmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 daughter | nummod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 possesses | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 possesses | nsubj |
| 13 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beauty | amod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beauty | amod |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 possesses | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 charm | cc |
| 18 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beauty | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 give | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 give | advmod |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 prince | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obl |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 born | mark |
| 29 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 30 born | advmod |
| 30 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 give | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 accomplished | cc |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 accomplished | advmod |
| 33 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 born | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 yourself | case |
| 35 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 accomplished | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | kingdom | pleased Heaven | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | kingdom not said here | one daughter | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=Theme | |||
| 3 | possess | present | one daughter | such great beauty and charm | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beauty=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | could | I | such great beauty and charm | Heaven | to a prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient that=Theme | ||
| 5 | bear | participle | I not said here | highly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | accomplish | participle | I not said here | as yourself | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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