The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 70
My command is that to-night you bring hither the bride and bridegroom."
Who acts: command, you, My · What happens: be, bring, command · To what, where: night, bride · 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 (command, you, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 command | nmod:poss |
| 2 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 night | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 night | cop |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 night | det |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 night | acl:relcl |
| 10 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 12 bride | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bride | det |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bridegroom | cc |
| 14 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bride | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My command | to that night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | you | that night not said here | the bride and bridegroom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination | |||
| 3 | command | My | nom command «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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