The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 5
"My lord," he said at last, "I do know the road for which you ask, but your kindness and the friendship I have conceived for you make me loth to point it out."
Who acts: dervish, you, kindness · What happens: say, know, ask, conceive, make, point out · To what, where: last, road, dervish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish, you, kindness), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 ask | obl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 ask | nsubj |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 road | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 conceived | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 conceived | cc |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 24 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 conceived | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 friendship | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 friendship | det |
| 27 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kindness | conj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 conceived | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 conceived | aux |
| 30 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 know | conj |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 make | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 make | nsubj |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 conceived | advcl |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 make | obj |
| 35 | loth | loth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 make | xcomp |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 point | mark |
| 37 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 loth | advcl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 point | obj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 point | compound:prt |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | dervish | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · do-support | dervish | the road | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | for the road | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | conceive in a quote | present · perfect | your kindness and the friendship | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present | you | dervish | loth property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | |||
| 6 | point out in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | road | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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