The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 98
As you are so kind," I said, "tell me, I pray you, what are the virtues of this ointment?"
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, say, tell, pray · To what, where: me, you, virtues · 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 (you, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 kind | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 kind | advmod |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pray | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 pray | nsubj |
| 16 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 pray | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 virtues | punct |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 virtues | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 virtues | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 virtues | det |
| 22 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pray | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ointment | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 ointment | det |
| 25 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 virtues | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the virtues | of this ointment | tree rules |
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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