The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 8
"My lord," answered the man, "pardon my boldness and my persistence.
Who acts: lord · What happens: answer, pardon · To what, where: man, boldness · 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 (lord), 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 | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pardon | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pardon | punct |
| 11 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 boldness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | boldness | boldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pardon | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 persistence | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 persistence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | persistence | persistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boldness | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My lord | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pardon in a quote | infinitive | My lord not said here | my boldness and my persistence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boldness=Theme |
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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