The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 53
It is this, Sire, that makes the horse so marvellous, and if your Highness will allow me, you can prove it for yourself."
Who acts: workman, Sire, Highness, you · What happens: be, make, allow, prove · To what, where: Sire, horse, me, workman
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workman, Sire, Highness, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Sire | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Sire | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Sire | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sire | punct |
| 5 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Sire | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 marvellous | advmod |
| 12 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prove | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 prove | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 allow | mark |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 allow | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 allow | aux |
| 19 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 prove | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 allow | iobj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 allow | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 prove | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 prove | aux |
| 24 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 makes | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 prove | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 yourself | case |
| 27 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 prove | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sire | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | workman | Sire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Sire | the horse | marvellous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset horse=Product | |||
| 3 | allow a condition, not said to happen | future | your Highness | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | prove | can | you | workman | for yourself | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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