The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 7
In order to do this he asked to speak in private with the king, saying that he had a most important communication to make.
Who acts: king · What happens: do, ask, speak, say, have, make · To what, where: this, private, important communication · 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 (king), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 do | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 speak | mark |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 private | case |
| 11 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 speak | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 private | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 communication | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 important | advmod |
| 22 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 communication | amod |
| 23 | communication | communication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 communication | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | private | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | past | king | a important communication | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent communication=Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | king not said here | a important communication not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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