The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 83
"Sire," replied Camaralzaman, "I can refuse your Majesty nothing."
Who acts: Sire · What happens: reply, refuse · To what, where: nothing · 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 (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 | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 refuse | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 refuse | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 refuse | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 refuse | aux |
| 11 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nothing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | compound |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 refuse | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 refuse | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | refuse in a quote | can | Sire | nothing | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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