The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 51
"The rest, Princess, you know; and it only remains for me to thank you for the kindness you have shown me, and to assure you of my gratitude.
Who acts: rest, need, you · What happens: know, remain, thank, show, assure · To what, where: you, kindness, father
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, need, 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 | _ | 3 rest | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rest | det |
| 3 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rest | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 remains | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 remains | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 remains | nsubj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 remains | advmod |
| 13 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 remains | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 thank | mark |
| 17 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 remains | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 thank | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 kindness | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 kindness | det |
| 21 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thank | obl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 shown | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shown | aux |
| 24 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 kindness | acl:relcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 shown | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 assure | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 assure | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 assure | mark |
| 29 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 know | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 assure | iobj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 gratitude | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 33 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 assure | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | the rest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | remain in a quote | present | need | for father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank in a quote | to-infinitive | need not said here | you | for the kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 4 | show in a quote | present · perfect | you | the kindness not said here | father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 5 | assure in a quote | to-infinitive | the rest not said here | you | of my gratitude | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of gratitude=Topic |
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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