The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 73
"You would, however, do us a great service in procuring us some," said Noureddin. "
Who acts: You, Noureddin · What happens: do, procure, say · To what, where: great service, us · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 would | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 service | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 service | amod |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 procuring | mark |
| 13 | procuring | procure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 do | advcl |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 procuring | obj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | would | You | a great service | us | however property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | procure in a quote | gerund | You not said here | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Noureddin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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