The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 34
But, Noureddin," I remonstrated, "you do not consider that in speaking thus you wrong the king, to whom your father owed everything."
Who acts: Noureddin, you, father · What happens: remonstrate, not consider, speak, wrong, owe · To what, where: king, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Noureddin, you, father), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 remonstrated | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Noureddin | punct |
| 3 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remonstrated | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Noureddin | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 remonstrated | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 remonstrated | nsubj |
| 7 | remonstrated | remonstrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 consider | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 consider | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 consider | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 consider | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 consider | advmod |
| 13 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 remonstrated | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 wrong | mark |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 speaking | mark |
| 16 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 wrong | advcl |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 speaking | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 wrong | nsubj |
| 19 | wrong | wrong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 consider | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wrong | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 owed | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 whom | case |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 owed | obl |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 owed | nsubj |
| 27 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 consider | conj |
| 28 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 owed | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remonstrated | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 remonstrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remonstrate in a quote | past | Noureddin | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not consider | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | you not said here | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wrong | present | you | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | owe | past | your father | everything | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent everything=Theme to whom=Goal |
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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