The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 89
There is one which I should like to present to your majesty.
Who acts: one, I · What happens: be, like, present · To what, where: majesty
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 (one, I), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 like | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 present | mark |
| 9 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 like | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 majesty | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 present | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like | should | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | present not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | your majesty | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to majesty=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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