The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 48
"My lords, I introduce to you a new colleague, Camaralzaman, whom I have known on my travels and who, I can assure you, you will find well deserves your regard and admiration."
Who acts: lords, you, your · What happens: introduce, know, travel, assure, find, deserve · To what, where: new colleague, you, regard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, you, your), 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 lords | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lords | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 introduce | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lords | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 introduce | nsubj |
| 6 | introduce | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 introduce | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 colleague | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 colleague | amod |
| 11 | colleague | colleague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 introduce | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Camaralzaman | punct |
| 13 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 colleague | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 known | punct |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 known | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 known | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 known | aux |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 colleague | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 21 travels | mark |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 travels | nmod:poss |
| 21 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 known | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 assure | cc |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 assure | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 who | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 assure | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 assure | aux |
| 27 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 travels | ccomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 assure | iobj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 find | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 find | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 find | aux |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 introduce | advcl |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 deserves | advmod |
| 34 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 find | ccomp |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 regard | nmod:poss |
| 36 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 deserves | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 admiration | cc |
| 38 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 regard | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 introduce | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 introduce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce in a quote | present | My lords | a new colleague | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent colleague=Patient to you=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a new colleague | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | travel in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | assure in a quote | can | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | find in a quote | future | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | deserve in a quote | present | your regard and admiration | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | regard in a quote | your | nom regard «cognition 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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