The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 61
"My son," said he, "rejoice and hold yourself ready to start in three days' time.
Who acts: son · What happens: say, rejoice, hold, start · To what, where: yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son), 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rejoice | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoice | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoice | punct |
| 10 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hold | cc |
| 12 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rejoice | conj |
| 13 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 hold | obj |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hold | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 start | mark |
| 16 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ready | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 time | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 19 days | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 start | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rejoice in a quote | infinitive | son | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | infinitive | son not said here | yourself | ready property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | |||
| 4 | start in a quote | to-infinitive | son not said here | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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