The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 26
"May it please your Majesty, I had gone to the slave market to buy myself a cook.
Who acts: place, Noureddin · What happens: please, go, buy · To what, where: Majesty, slave market, cook, Noureddin
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Noureddin), 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 | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 please | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 please | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 please | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gone | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | aux |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 please | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 market | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 market | det |
| 13 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 market | compound |
| 14 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gone | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 buy | mark |
| 16 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gone | advcl |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 buy | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cook | det |
| 19 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buy | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please in a quote | may | place | your Majesty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majesty=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past · perfect | Noureddin | the slave market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | buy in a quote | to-infinitive | Noureddin not said here | a cook | Noureddin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary cook=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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