The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 63
Invite him to sup with you, and say you wish to taste the wine of his country.
Who acts: you, Aladdin · What happens: invite, sup, say, wish, taste · To what, where: Aladdin, wine · 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, Aladdin), 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 | Invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Invite | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 sup | mark |
| 4 | sup | sup | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Invite | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sup | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 say | cc |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Invite | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 taste | mark |
| 13 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wish | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wine | det |
| 15 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taste | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 country | nmod:poss |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wine | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Invite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | imperative | you not said here | Aladdin | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sup not said to happen | to-infinitive | Aladdin not said here | with you | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | taste not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the wine of Aladdin's country | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme wine=Attribute |
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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