The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 70
"Sire," said Saouy, "I thank your Majesty for the justice you do me.
Who acts: Sire, you · What happens: say, thank, do · To what, where: Majesty, Sire · 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 (Sire, you), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 thank | nsubj |
| 10 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thank | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 justice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 justice | det |
| 15 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thank | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | Sire | your Majesty | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | you | Sire | for the justice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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