The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 73
"My son," replied the king, "you speak nobly, but you do not realise either the value of the horse, or the fact that if I reject the proposal of the Indian, he will only make the same to some other monarch, and I should be filled with despair at the thought that anyone but myself should own this Seventh Wonder of the World.
Who acts: son, you, anyone · What happens: reply, speak, not realise, reject, make, fill · To what, where: king, value, proposal, same, son, thought · 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 (son, you, anyone), 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 speak | nsubj |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | nobly | nobly | ADV | _ | 12 speak | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 realise | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 realise | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 realise | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 realise | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 realise | advmod |
| 19 | realise | realise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 speak | conj |
| 20 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 22 value | cc:preconj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 value | det |
| 22 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 realise | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 horse | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 horse | det |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 value | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fact | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 fact | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fact | det |
| 29 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 value | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 make | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 reject | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 reject | nsubj |
| 33 | reject | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 make | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 proposal | det |
| 35 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reject | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Indian | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Indian | det |
| 38 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 proposal | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reject | punct |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 make | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 make | aux |
| 42 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 make | advmod |
| 43 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 fact | acl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 same | det |
| 45 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 make | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 monarch | case |
| 47 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 49 monarch | det |
| 48 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 monarch | amod |
| 49 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 make | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 filled | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 filled | cc |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 filled | nsubj |
| 53 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 filled | aux |
| 54 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 filled | aux:pass |
| 55 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 value | acl |
| 56 | with | with | ADP | _ | 57 despair | case |
| 57 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 filled | obl |
| 58 | at | at | ADP | _ | 60 thought | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 thought | det |
| 60 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 filled | obl |
| 61 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 66 own | mark |
| 62 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 66 own | nsubj |
| 63 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 64 myself | cc |
| 64 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 62 anyone | conj |
| 65 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 66 own | aux |
| 66 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 thought | ccomp |
| 67 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 69 Wonder | nsubj |
| 68 | Seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 Wonder | amod |
| 69 | Wonder | Wonder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 own | obj |
| 70 | of | of | ADP | _ | 72 World | case |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 72 World | det |
| 72 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 69 Wonder | nmod |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My son | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | you | nobly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not realise in a quote | present · do-support | you | the value of the horse or the fact | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reject a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | My son = son | the proposal of the Indian | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | future | son | the same | to some other monarch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Product | |||
| 6 | fill in a quote | should · passive | My son = son | the thought | with despair | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with despair=Instrument | |||
| 7 | own in a quote | should | anyone | Seventh Wonder of the World | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wonder=Theme | ||||
| 8 | value in a quote | the horse | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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