The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 34
The Sultan was delighted with this remark, and said at once, "In that case I shall take great pleasure in watching you.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: be, say, take, watch · To what, where: great pleasure, case, you · 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 (Sultan), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 remark | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 remark | det |
| 7 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 15 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 case | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 case | det |
| 17 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pleasure | amod |
| 22 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 watching | mark |
| 24 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 take | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 watching | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Sultan | with this remark; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | shall | the Sultan = sultan | great pleasure | that case | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in case=Location | |||
| 4 | watch in a quote | gerund | the Sultan = sultan not said here | you | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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