The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 54
Call her next time, that I may find out what she wants."
Who acts: you, I, woman · What happens: call, find out, want · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, woman), 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 | Call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Call | obj |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Call | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Call | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 find | compound:prt |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 wants | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wants | nsubj |
| 13 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Call | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | imperative | you not said here | woman | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | find out | may | I | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want | present | woman | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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