The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 7
Send for a nurse, and I will do what is needful publicly to recognise it as my son."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: send, do, be, recognise · To what, where: nurse
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 nurse | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nurse | det |
| 4 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Send | parataxis |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 needful | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 needful | cop |
| 12 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 do | ccomp |
| 13 | publicly | publicly | ADV | _ | 12 needful | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 recognise | mark |
| 15 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 needful | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 recognise | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recognise | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | for a nurse | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | future | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | needful, publicly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | recognise | to-infinitive | nurse | as my son | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as son=Attribute |
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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