The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 81
I gladly yield to her the precedence and title of Queen in recognition of the debt of gratitude which I owe her."
Who acts: I · What happens: yield, owe, title, recognize · To what, where: precedence, princess, gratitude, Queen, recognition, debt
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 yield | nsubj |
| 2 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 3 yield | advmod |
| 3 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 yield | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 precedence | det |
| 7 | precedence | precedence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yield | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 title | cc |
| 9 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 precedence | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Queen | case |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 title | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 recognition | case |
| 13 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 title | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 debt | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 debt | det |
| 16 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 recognition | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gratitude | case |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 debt | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 owe | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 owe | nsubj |
| 21 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 gratitude | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 owe | iobj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 yield | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yield | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | present | I | the precedence and title of Queen in recognition of the debt of gratitude | princess | gladly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent precedence=Theme to she=Goal | ||
| 2 | owe | present | I | gratitude | princess | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal which=Theme | |||
| 3 | title | Queen | recognition of the debt of gratitude | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place | |||||
| 4 | recognize | the debt of gratitude | nom recognition «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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