The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 42
"Certainly, but Noureddin has just been to tell me that his father has changed his mind and has bestowed me upon him.
Who acts: king · What happens: tell, change, bestow, mind · To what, where: husband, Noureddin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 Certainly | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 16 changed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 changed | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 changed | cc |
| 5 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 changed | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 changed | advmod |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 changed | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 changed | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 changed | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changed | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 changed | aux |
| 16 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changed | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bestowed | cc |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bestowed | aux |
| 21 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 changed | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bestowed | obj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bestowed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | my husband = husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | change in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Noureddin | certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bestow in a quote | present · perfect | my husband = husband | upon king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mind in a quote | king | nom mind «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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