The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 49
The Caliph came down from his throne, and said: "Rise, I forgive thee."
Who acts: Caliph, I · What happens: come down, say, rise, forgive · To what, where: throne, thee · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 throne | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 throne | nmod:poss |
| 7 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rise | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rise | punct |
| 13 | Rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgive | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 forgive | nsubj |
| 16 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Rise | advcl |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 forgive | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rise | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | the Caliph | hand's throne | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from throne=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | rise in a quote | infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | forgive in a quote | present | I | thee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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