The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 2
The princess waited a moment, and then continued in severe tones, "Have you forgotten that you yourself said that you are my slave to do my bidding, and also that your life is in my power?"
Who acts: princess, you, life, my · What happens: wait, continue, forget, say, be, do · To what, where: severe tones, slave, bidding, power · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, you, life, my), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 continued | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 continued | advmod |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tones | case |
| 11 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tones | amod |
| 12 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 continued | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forgotten | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 forgotten | punct |
| 15 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 forgotten | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 forgotten | nsubj |
| 17 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 continued | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 said | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 you | nmod |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forgotten | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 slave | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 slave | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 slave | cop |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 slave | nmod:poss |
| 26 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 power | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 power | cc |
| 33 | also | also | ADV | _ | 40 power | advmod |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 power | mark |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 life | nmod:poss |
| 36 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 power | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 power | cop |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 power | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 power | nmod:poss |
| 40 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | conj |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the princess | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | severe tones | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | present · perfect | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask in a quote | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | my slave | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | my bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | your life | my power | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | bid in a quote | my | nom bidding «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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