The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 1
"I should be sorry for that," answered the Caliph, "and I am going to take steps to prevent it.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: be, answer, go, take, prevent · To what, where: steps, Caliph · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph), 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 | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sorry | cop |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sorry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caliph | det |
| 12 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Caliph | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Caliph | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 going | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | xcomp |
| 21 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 prevent | mark |
| 23 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 take | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 prevent | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | the Caliph = caliph | for that; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Caliph | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the Caliph = caliph | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | the Caliph = caliph not said here | steps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prevent in a quote | to-infinitive | the Caliph = caliph not said here | Caliph | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=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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