The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 4
"Forgive my ignorance," he asked, "what is this palace you speak of?"
Who acts: you, magician, my · What happens: forgive, ask, be, speak, ignore · To what, where: ignorance, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, magician, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forgive | punct |
| 2 | Forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ignorance | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Forgive | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Forgive | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 palace | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 palace | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 palace | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 palace | cop |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 speak | nsubj |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 palace | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 speak | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forgive | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my ignorance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ignorance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | magician | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this palace | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | you | this palace not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ignore in a quote | my | nom ignorance «cognition 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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