The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 35
I am not Prince Camaralzaman, but a princess like yourself and his wife, and I beg you to listen to my story, then I am sure you will forgive my imposture, in consideration of my sufferings."
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: not be, beg, listen, be, forgive, consider · To what, where: Camaralzaman, you, imposture, sufferings
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 (I, you, 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 | 5 Camaralzaman | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Camaralzaman | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 Camaralzaman | advmod |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Camaralzaman | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yourself | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 yourself | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yourself | nsubj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 yourself | case |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 Camaralzaman | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wife | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yourself | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beg | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beg | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 beg | nsubj |
| 18 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Camaralzaman | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 beg | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 listen | mark |
| 21 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 beg | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 story | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 story | nmod:poss |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 listen | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sure | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 sure | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 sure | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sure | cop |
| 29 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beg | advcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 forgive | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 forgive | aux |
| 32 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sure | ccomp |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 imposture | nmod:poss |
| 34 | imposture | imposture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forgive | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 consideration | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 consideration | case |
| 37 | consideration | consideration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forgive | parataxis |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sufferings | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sufferings | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 consideration | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Camaralzaman | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Camaralzaman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | I | Camaralzaman | like yourself; Prince nmod:desc | tree rules | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | I not said here | to my story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | then | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | forgive | future | you | my imposture | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imposture=Theme | ||||
| 6 | consider | my sufferings | nom consideration «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | suffer | my | nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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