The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 51
"Then be sure you do not forget to-day," answered the Sultan, "and bring me back your reply to-morrow."
Who acts: you, Sultan, your · What happens: be, not forget, answer, bring back, reply · To what, where: reply, Bahman · 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 (you, Sultan, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sure | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 forget | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 forget | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 forget | advmod |
| 8 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forget | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sultan | det |
| 16 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bring | cc |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | back | back | ADP | _ | 20 bring | compound:prt |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 reply | nmod:poss |
| 24 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 morrow | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | then | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not forget in a quote | present · do-support | you | day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Sultan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring back in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your reply | Bahman | to morrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination reply=Theme | ||
| 5 | reply in a quote | your | nom reply «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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