The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 40
I will tell your Majesty, if you will do me the honour to listen," answered the vizir."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, do, listen, answer · To what, where: Majesty, honour, me, vizir · 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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 honour | det |
| 13 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 listen | mark |
| 15 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 honour | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vizir | det |
| 20 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | your Majesty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | you | the honour | me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the honour not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | you not said here | the vizir | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent vizir=Eventuality |
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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