The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 130

Sire," said he, "I know that no physician has been able to cure your majesty, but if you will follow my instructions, I will promise to cure you without any medicines or outward application."

Who acts: Sire, physician, you, I, my · What happens: say, know, be, cure, follow, promise · To what, where: majesty, instructions, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, physician, you, I), 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	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sire	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sire	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 able	mark
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 physician	det
12	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 able	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 able	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 able	cop
15	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 know	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cure	mark
17	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	xcomp
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 majesty	nmod:poss
19	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cure	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 promise	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 promise	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 follow	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 follow	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 follow	aux
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 promise	advcl
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 instructions	nmod:poss
27	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 follow	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 follow	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 promise	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 promise	aux
31	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cure	mark
33	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 promise	xcomp
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 cure	obj
35	without	without	ADP	_	37 medicines	case
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 medicines	det
37	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 cure	obl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 application	cc
39	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 application	amod
40	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 medicines	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 promise	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Sire			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	sire			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present · perfect	no physician		able property	tree rules
4	cure	to-infinitive	no physician not said here	your majesty		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer majesty=Source
5	follow a condition, not said to happen	future	you	my instructions		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme
6	promise speech: promise	future	I			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	cure not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	without any medicines or outward application	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source
8	instruct		my			nom instruction «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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