The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 17
And, Sire," ended the prince, "having given my royal word that you would not refuse your consent to our marriage, I persuaded her to return with me on the Indian's horse.
Who acts: Sire, you, I, my, your, our · What happens: end, have, give, not refuse, persuade, return · To what, where: prince, royal word, Sire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, you, I, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ended | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sire | punct |
| 3 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sire | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sire | punct |
| 6 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ended | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ended | parataxis |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 word | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 word | nmod:poss |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 word | amod |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 refuse | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 refuse | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 refuse | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 refuse | advmod |
| 20 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 word | acl:relcl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 consent | nmod:poss |
| 22 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 refuse | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 marriage | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 refuse | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 persuaded | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 persuaded | nsubj |
| 28 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ended | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 persuaded | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 return | mark |
| 31 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 persuaded | xcomp |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 return | obl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 horse | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Indian | det |
| 36 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 horse | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Indian | case |
| 38 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 return | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end in a quote | past | Sire | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | give my royal word | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | not refuse | would | you | my royal word | to our marriage | tree rules | |||
| 5 | persuade | past | I | Sire | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 6 | return | to-infinitive | Sire not said here | with me; on the Indian's horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | consent | your | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | marry | our | nom marriage «state 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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