The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 61
Commander of the Faithful, I will not trouble to describe my birth; it is not of sufficient distinction to deserve your Highness' attention.
Who acts: birth, Highness · What happens: describe, not be, deserve, attend · To what, where: birth, attention
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 (birth, Highness), 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 | Commander | Commander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trouble | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Faithful | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Faithful | det |
| 4 | Faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Commander | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Commander | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 trouble | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 trouble | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 trouble | advmod |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 describe | mark |
| 11 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 trouble | acl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 birth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 describe | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 distinction | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 distinction | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 distinction | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 distinction | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 distinction | case |
| 19 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 distinction | amod |
| 20 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trouble | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 deserve | mark |
| 22 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 distinction | acl |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 attention | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 24 Highness | case |
| 26 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deserve | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | to-infinitive | my birth | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | birth | of sufficient distinction | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deserve | to-infinitive | your Highness's attention | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | attend | your Highness | nom attention «cognition 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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