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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 65

"Madam," replied the dervish, "for in spite of your manly dress your voice betrays you, I shall be proud to serve you in any way I can.

Who acts: Madam, voice · What happens: reply, dress, betray, be, serve · To what, where: dervish, you, way · 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 (Madam, voice), 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctcasecaseoblcaseconjxcompconjnmod:possnsubjccompobjpunctnsubjauxcopparataxismarkadvclobjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclpunctroot"PUNCTMadamNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETdervishNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTforADPinADPspiteNOUNofADPyourPRONmanlyADJdressVERByourPRONvoiceNOUNbetraysVERByouPRON,PUNCTIPRONshallAUXbeAUXproudADJtoPARTserveVERByouPRONinADPanyDETwayNOUNIPRONcanAUX.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Madampunct
2MadammadamNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Madampunct
4""PUNCT_2 Madampunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 dervishdet
7dervishdervishNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_7 dervishpunct
9""PUNCT_7 dervishpunct
10forforADP_12 spitecase
11ininADP_12 spitecase
12spitespiteNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedobl
13ofofADP_14 yourcase
14youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 spiteconj
15manlymanlyADJDegree=Pos14 yourxcomp
16dressdressVERBVerbForm=Inf15 manlyconj
17youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 voicenmod:poss
18voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing19 betraysnsubj
19betraysbetrayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 dressccomp
20youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs19 betraysobj
21,,PUNCT_25 proudpunct
22IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 proudnsubj
23shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin25 proudaux
24bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf25 proudcop
25proudproudADJDegree=Pos19 betraysparataxis
26totoPART_27 servemark
27serveserveVERBVerbForm=Inf25 proudadvcl
28youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs27 serveobj
29ininADP_31 waycase
30anyanyDETPronType=Ind31 waydet
31waywayNOUNNumber=Sing27 serveobl
32IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs33 cannsubj
33cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin31 wayacl:relcl
34..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastMadamthe dervishfor spitevn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dervish=Topic
2dress in a quoteinfinitiveMadam not said heretree rules
3betray in a quotepresentyour voiceyoutree rules
4is in a quoteshallMadamproud propertytree rules
5serve in a quoteto-infinitiveMadam not said hereyouany wayvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in way=Location

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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