The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 28
I will give you a letter to the king, which will ensure you a good reception from him."
Who acts: I · What happens: give, ensure · To what, where: letter, you, good reception
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 letter | det |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ensure | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ensure | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 ensure | aux |
| 13 | ensure | ensure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 ensure | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 reception | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 reception | amod |
| 17 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ensure | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ensure | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | a letter | you | to the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient letter=Theme | ||
| 2 | ensure | future | a good reception | you | from king | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition you=Beneficiary reception=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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