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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 15

What the Greek king said excited the vizir's curiosity, and he said to him, "Sire, I beg your majesty to have the condescension to tell me what the vizir said to King Sindbad."

Who acts: Greek king, king, vizir · What happens: say, beg, have, tell · To what, where: vizir, majesty, condescension, king, King Sindbad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greek king, king, vizir), 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

objdetamodnsubjamoddetnmod:posscaseccomppunctccnsubjconjcaseoblpunctpunctccomppunctnsubjacl:relclnmod:possobjmarkadvcldetobjmarkacliobjobjdetnsubjccompcasecompoundoblpunctpunctrootWhatPRONtheDETGreekADJkingNOUNsaidVERBexcitedADJtheDETvizirNOUN'sPARTcuriosityNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsaidVERBtoADPhimPRON,PUNCT"PUNCTSireNOUN,PUNCTIPRONbegVERByourPRONmajestyNOUNtoPARThaveVERBtheDETcondescensionNOUNtoPARTtellVERBmePRONwhatPRONtheDETvizirNOUNsaidVERBtoADPKingPROPNSindbadPROPN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int5 saidobj
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 kingdet
3GreekGreekADJDegree=Pos4 kingamod
4kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing5 saidnsubj
5saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6excitedexcitedADJDegree=Pos10 curiosityamod
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 vizirdet
8vizirvizirNOUNNumber=Sing10 curiositynmod:poss
9's'sPART_8 vizircase
10curiositycuriosityNOUNNumber=Sing5 saidccomp
11,,PUNCT_14 saidpunct
12andandCCONJ_14 saidcc
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 saidnsubj
14saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 saidconj
15totoADP_16 himcase
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 saidobl
17,,PUNCT_19 Sirepunct
18""PUNCT_19 Sirepunct
19SiresireNOUNNumber=Sing14 saidccomp
20,,PUNCT_22 begpunct
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 begnsubj
22begbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 Sireacl:relcl
23youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 majestynmod:poss
24majestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing22 begobj
25totoPART_26 havemark
26havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf22 begadvcl
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 condescensiondet
28condescensioncondescensionNOUNNumber=Sing26 haveobj
29totoPART_30 tellmark
30telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf28 condescensionacl
31meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs30 telliobj
32whatwhatPRONPronType=Int35 saidobj
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 vizirdet
34vizirvizirNOUNNumber=Sing35 saidnsubj
35saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 tellccomp
36totoADP_38 Sindbadcase
37KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing38 Sindbadcompound
38SindbadSindbadPROPNNumber=Sing35 saidobl
39..PUNCT_19 Sirepunct
40""PUNCT_19 Sirepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe Greek kingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2say speech: assertpastkingvizirvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3beg speech: request in a quotepresentkingyour majestyvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient
4have in a quoteto-infinitiveking not said herethe condescensionvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condescension=Patient
5tell speech: assert in a quoteto-infinitiveking not said herethe condescension not said herekingvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6say speech: assert in a quotepastthe vizirKing Sindbadvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to sindbad=Recipient

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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