The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 33
"Sire," replied Prince Bahman, "it is our usual exercise, and one that should be neglected by no man who expects to comply with the ancient customs of the kingdom and bear arms."
Who acts: Sire, hunting, man · What happens: reply, be, neglect, expect, comply · To what, where: Bahman, usual exercise, one · 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 (Sire, hunting, man), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exercise | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 exercise | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 exercise | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 exercise | cop |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 exercise | nmod:poss |
| 13 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 exercise | amod |
| 14 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Bahman | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 neglected | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 neglected | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 neglected | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 neglected | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 neglected | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 neglected | aux:pass |
| 21 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 neglected | obl |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 expects | nsubj |
| 26 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 comply | mark |
| 28 | comply | comply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 expects | xcomp |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 customs | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 customs | det |
| 31 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 customs | amod |
| 32 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 comply | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 kingdom | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 kingdom | det |
| 35 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 customs | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 arms | cc |
| 37 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 arms | compound |
| 38 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 kingdom | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | Bahman Prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bahman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | hunting | our usual exercise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | neglect in a quote | should · passive | no man | one | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | expect in a quote | present | no man | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | comply not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | no man not said here | with the ancient customs of the kingdom and bear arms | tree rules |
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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