The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 59
"Your majesty has no need to obey this letter.
Who acts: majesty · What happens: have, obey · To what, where: need, letter
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 (majesty), 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 | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 need | det |
| 6 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 obey | mark |
| 8 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 need | acl |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obey | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Your majesty | no need | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | to-infinitive | Your majesty not said here | this letter | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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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