The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 63
When the Sultan had finished speaking the three sisters flung themselves at his feet, and the youngest faltered out, "Oh, sire, since you know my foolish words, believe, I pray you, that they were only said in joke.
Who acts: speaking, you, I, my · What happens: finish, speak, fling, falter out, know, believe · To what, where: Sultan, three sisters, Sisters, feet, foolish words, you · 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 (speaking, you, I, my), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 flung | advcl |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 flung | csubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sisters | det |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sisters | nummod |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 speaking | obj |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 flung | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flung | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 faltered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 faltered | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 faltered | det |
| 18 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 faltered | advmod |
| 19 | faltered | falter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 flung | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 faltered | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sire | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 sire | punct |
| 23 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 25 sire | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Oh | punct |
| 25 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 faltered | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 27 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 29 know | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 know | nsubj |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 flung | parataxis |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 words | nmod:poss |
| 31 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 words | amod |
| 32 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 know | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 believe | punct |
| 34 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 know | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 pray | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 pray | nsubj |
| 37 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 believe | ccomp |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 pray | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 said | punct |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 said | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 said | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 said | aux:pass |
| 43 | only | only | ADV | _ | 44 said | advmod |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 pray | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 joke | case |
| 46 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 said | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | the Sultan | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | the three sisters | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fling | past | speaking | Sisters = sister | Sultan's feet | tree rules | |||
| 4 | falter out | participle | speaking not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | you | my foolish words | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | believe in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | pray in a quote | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · passive | words = word | joke | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in joke=Manner | ||||
| 9 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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