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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 69

Aladdin replied: "The Sultan, as thou knowest, has broken his promise to me, and the vizir's son is to have the princess.

Who acts: Aladdin, thou, son · What happens: reply, know, break, be, promise · To what, where: Sultan, promise, Aladdin · 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 (Aladdin, thou, son), 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

nsubjpunctpunctdetoblpunctmarknsubjparataxispunctauxconjnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctccdetnmod:posscasensubjcopmarkconjdetobjpunctrootAladdinPROPNrepliedVERB:PUNCT"PUNCTTheDETSultanPROPN,PUNCTasSCONJthouPRONknowestVERB,PUNCThasAUXbrokenVERBhisPRONpromiseNOUNtoADPmePRON,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETvizirNOUN'sPARTsonNOUNisAUXtoPARThaveVERBtheDETprincessNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AladdinAladdinPROPNNumber=Sing2 repliednsubj
2repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3::PUNCT_6 Sultanpunct
4""PUNCT_6 Sultanpunct
5ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Sultandet
6SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing2 repliedobl
7,,PUNCT_10 knowestpunct
8asasSCONJ_10 knowestmark
9thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch10 knowestnsubj
10knowestknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 repliedparataxis
11,,PUNCT_13 brokenpunct
12hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 brokenaux
13brokenbreakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 knowestconj
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 promisenmod:poss
15promisepromiseNOUNNumber=Sing13 brokenobj
16totoADP_17 mecase
17meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs13 brokenobl
18,,PUNCT_26 havepunct
19andandCCONJ_26 havecc
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 vizirdet
21vizirvizirNOUNNumber=Sing23 sonnmod:poss
22's'sPART_21 vizircase
23sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing26 havensubj
24isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 havecop
25totoPART_26 havemark
26havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf10 knowestconj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 princessdet
28princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing26 haveobj
29..PUNCT_2 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastAladdinthe Sultanvn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2know in a quotepresentthouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3break in a quotepresent · perfectthou not said hereAladdin's promiseAladdinvn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent promise=Patient to i=Result
4is in a quotepresentthe vizir's sonhave propertytree rules
5promise in a quoteAladdinnom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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