The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 71
But, Princess, I am persuaded that you will feel with me, that I cannot possibly present myself before so great a sovereign without the attendants suitable to my rank.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: persuade, feel, not present · To what, where: Princess, myself
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 (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 persuaded | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 persuaded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 persuaded | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 7 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 feel | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 feel | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 feel | aux |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 persuaded | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 feel | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 present | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 present | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 present | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 present | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 present | advmod |
| 19 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 20 present | advmod |
| 20 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 feel | conj |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 present | obj |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 great | advmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 great | advmod |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sovereign | amod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sovereign | det |
| 26 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 present | obj |
| 27 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 30 suitable | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 attendants | det |
| 29 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 suitable | nsubj |
| 30 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 present | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 rank | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 rank | nmod:poss |
| 33 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 suitable | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | present · passive | Princess | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | feel | future | you | with me | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not present | can | I | myself | possibly property | tree rules |
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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