The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 23
But I have sent for you to inquire what was your motive in making such a curious vow.
Who acts: I · What happens: send, inquire, be, make · To what, where: motive, curious vow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 sent | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 inquire | mark |
| 8 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 motive | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 motive | cop |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 motive | nmod:poss |
| 12 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inquire | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 making | mark |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 inquire | advcl |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 vow | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 vow | det |
| 17 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 vow | amod |
| 18 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect | I | for you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | your motive | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | I not said here | such curious vow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vow=Product |
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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