The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 98
I granted his request, but forgot since to mention it to your Majesty."
Who acts: I, Scheih · What happens: grant, forget, not mention, request · To what, where: request, assembly, Majesty
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 (I, Scheih), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 granted | nsubj |
| 2 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 request | nmod:poss |
| 4 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 granted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgot | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 forgot | cc |
| 7 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 granted | conj |
| 8 | since | since | ADV | _ | 7 forgot | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 mention | mark |
| 10 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forgot | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mention | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Majesty | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mention | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 granted | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | I | Scheih's request | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | I not said here | since property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not mention speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | assembly | your Majesty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to majesty=Recipient | |||
| 4 | request | Scheih | nom request «communication 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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