The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 91
He dismounted from his horse, and bowed low before the holy man, saying by way of greeting, "My father, may your days be long in the land, and may all your wishes be fulfilled!"
Who acts: prince, days, your · What happens: dismount, bow, say, be, fulfil, wish · To what, where: land, wishes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince, days, your), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dismounted | nsubj |
| 2 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dismounted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bowed | cc |
| 8 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dismounted | conj |
| 9 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 bowed | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bowed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 bowed | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saying | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 greeting | case |
| 19 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 way | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 father | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 father | punct |
| 22 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 long | punct |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 long | aux |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 days | nmod:poss |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 long | nsubj |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 long | cop |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 father | amod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 land | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 long | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fulfilled | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fulfilled | cc |
| 35 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 fulfilled | aux |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 wishes | det:predet |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 40 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dismounted | parataxis |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 fulfilled | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | prince | from prince's horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bow | participle | prince not said here | before the holy man | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before man=Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | gerund | prince not said here | by way of greeting | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | may | your days | the land | long property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fulfil in a quote | may · passive | your wishes | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wish in a quote | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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