The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 58

"Commander of the Faithful," said he, "dazzled though I am by the lustre of your Highness' presence, I will do my best to satisfy your wishes.

Who acts: Commander, your · What happens: say, dazzle, be, do, satisfy, wish · To what, where: best, wishes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commander, your), 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 Commander	punct
2	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Faithful	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Faithful	det
5	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Commander	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Commander	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Commander	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dazzled	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dazzled	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dazzled	punct
12	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 lustre	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 lustre	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lustre	cop
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 lustre	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lustre	det
18	lustre	lustre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dazzled	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 presence	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Highness	nmod:poss
21	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 presence	nmod:poss
22	'	's	PART	_	21 Highness	case
23	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lustre	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 best	nmod:poss
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 do	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 satisfy	mark
31	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 do	advcl
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wishes	nmod:poss
33	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 satisfy	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Commander of the Faithful			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dazzle in a quote	participle	Commander			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	Commander of the Faithful = commander		by the lustre; of your Highness's presence	tree rules
4	do in a quote	future	Commander of the Faithful = commander	my best		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
5	satisfy in a quote	to-infinitive	Commander of the Faithful = commander not said here	your wishes		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer
6	wish in a quote		your			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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