The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 51
"Sire, I cannot find words in which to thank your Majesty for the great honour conferred on me.
Who acts: Sire · What happens: not find, thank, confer · To what, where: words, Majesty, great honour
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 (Sire), 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 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 find | advmod |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 thank | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 thank | mark |
| 12 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 words | acl:relcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thank | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 honour | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 honour | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 honour | amod |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thank | obl |
| 19 | conferred | confer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 honour | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 conferred | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find in a quote | can | Sire | words | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | to-infinitive | Sire not said here | your Majesty | words | for the great honour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent majesty=Theme for honour=Attribute | ||
| 3 | confer in a quote | participle | the great honour not said here | on Badoura's friend = friend | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on i=Topic |
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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