The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 84
My father has always informed me that in my marriage I shall be left quite free, but I am persuaded that I have only to describe your generosity, for my wishes to become his own."
Who acts: father, I, wishes, my · What happens: inform, leave, persuade, have, describe, become · To what, where: me, I, marriage, generosity · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, I, wishes, my), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 informed | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 informed | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 informed | advmod |
| 5 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 informed | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 left | mark |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 marriage | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 left | aux:pass |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 informed | ccomp |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 free | advmod |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 left | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 persuaded | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 persuaded | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 persuaded | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 21 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 informed | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 persuaded | advcl |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 describe | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 describe | mark |
| 27 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 have | xcomp |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 generosity | nmod:poss |
| 29 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 describe | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 become | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 become | mark |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 become | nsubj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 become | mark |
| 35 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 persuaded | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 own | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 become | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 informed | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | present · perfect | My father | me | always property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | leave | shall · passive | I | my marriage | free property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in marriage=Location | |||
| 3 | persuade | present · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | describe | to-infinitive | I not said here | your generosity | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent generosity=Theme | ||||
| 6 | become | to-infinitive | my wishes | own property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | marry | my | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | wish | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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