The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 49
At last Prince Bahman said, "Sire, we must throw ourselves on your Highness's mercy.
Who acts: Bahman, we · What happens: say, throw · To what, where: ourselves, mercy · 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 (Bahman, we), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Prince | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sire | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sire | punct |
| 8 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 throw | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 throw | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 throw | aux |
| 12 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 throw | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 mercy | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Highness | case |
| 18 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Bahman | at last Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw in a quote | must | we | ourselves | your Highness's mercy | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme on mercy=Destination |
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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