The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 79
"I do not know, Princess, how to express my gratitude for your obliging offer, which I would accept at once if it were not for the recollection of all the uneasiness the King my father must be suffering on my account.
Who acts: passion, gratitude, father, your, my · What happens: not know, express, oblige, accept, not be, suffer · To what, where: Princess, gratitude, uneasiness, account
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 (passion, gratitude, father, your), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Princess | punct |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 express | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 express | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 express | mark |
| 11 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 express | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 offer | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 offer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | obliging | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 offer | amod |
| 17 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 express | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 accept | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 accept | nsubj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 accept | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 accept | aux |
| 22 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 express | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 accept | obl |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 recollection | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 recollection | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 recollection | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 recollection | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 recollection | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 recollection | det |
| 31 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 accept | xcomp |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 uneasiness | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 uneasiness | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 uneasiness | det |
| 35 | uneasiness | uneasiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 recollection | nmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 King | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 uneasiness | appos |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 father | nmod:poss |
| 39 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 suffering | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 suffering | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 suffering | aux |
| 42 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 uneasiness | acl:relcl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 account | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 account | nmod:poss |
| 45 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 suffering | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | passion | Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | express in a quote | to-infinitive | passion not said here | my gratitude | for your obliging offer | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme | |||
| 3 | oblige in a quote | gerund | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | accept in a quote | would | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | gratitude | for the recollection; of all uneasiness | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | suffer in a quote | must · progressive | my father | all uneasiness not said here | my account | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer uneasiness=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | offer in a quote | your | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | account in a quote | my | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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