The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 61
You," he said, turning to the youngest, "who desired to have me for an husband, shall be satisfied this very day.
Who acts: You · What happens: say, turn, desire, have, be · To what, where: youngest, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 You | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 You | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turning | punct |
| 7 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 youngest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youngest | det |
| 10 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 turning | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desired | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 desired | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 desired | nsubj |
| 14 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 desired | xcomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 husband | det |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 satisfied | punct |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 satisfied | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 satisfied | cop |
| 24 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 desired | advcl |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 day | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 day | advmod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 satisfied | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | gerund | You not said here | the youngest | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to young=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | desire | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | me | for a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | shall | day | satisfied property | tree rules |
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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