The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 66
But may I ask the purpose of your question?"
Who acts: I, question, your · What happens: ask, purpose, question · To what, where: purpose
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 (I, question, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ask | cc |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 purpose | det |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 question | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 question | nmod:poss |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 purpose | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | may | I | the purpose of your question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent purpose=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | purpose | your question | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | question | your | nom question «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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