The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 62

"Sire," replied the Indian, "I never doubted that a sovereign so wise and accomplished as your Highness would do justice to my horse, when he once knew its power; and I even went so far as to think it probable that you might wish to possess it.

Who acts: Sire, Highness, you · What happens: reply, not doubt, accomplish, do, know, go · To what, where: Indian, justice, power · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Indian	det
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 replied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doubted	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 doubted	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 doubted	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 doubted	advmod
12	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wise	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sovereign	det
15	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wise	nsubj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 wise	advmod
17	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 doubted	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 accomplished	cc
19	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wise	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 do	mark
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Highness	nmod:poss
22	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 accomplished	advcl
25	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 horse	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 horse	nmod:poss
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 knew	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 knew	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knew	nsubj
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 knew	advmod
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 horse	acl:relcl
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 power	nmod:poss
35	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 knew	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 went	cc
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
39	even	even	ADV	_	40 went	advmod
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	conj
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 far	advmod
42	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 went	advmod
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 think	mark
44	to	to	PART	_	45 think	mark
45	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 far	advcl
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 think	obj
47	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 think	xcomp
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 wish	mark
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 wish	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 wish	aux
51	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 probable	advcl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 possess	mark
53	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 wish	xcomp
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 possess	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Sire	the Indian		tree rules
2	not doubt in a quote	past	Sire			vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	accomplish in a quote	participle	Sire not said here			vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	would	your Highness	justice	to my horse	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality
5	know in a quote	past	Highness	sovereign's power	once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus
6	go in a quote	past	Sire		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	Sire not said here	power	probable property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
8	wish in a quote	might	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	possess not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	power		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 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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