The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 56

Your meeting with the Sultan is very honourable to you," she said, "and will, I dare say, be of service to you, but it places me in a very awkward position.

Who acts: meeting, Parizade, I, service · What happens: be, say, dare, place · To what, where: you, me, awkward position · 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 (meeting, Parizade, I, service), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 meeting	nmod:poss
2	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 honourable	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 Sultan	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sultan	det
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 meeting	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 honourable	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 honourable	advmod
8	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 honourable	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 honourable	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 will	cc
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dare	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 dare	nsubj
21	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 honourable	parataxis
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dare	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 service	punct
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 service	cop
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 service	case
26	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 service	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 places	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 places	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 places	nsubj
32	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 honourable	obl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 places	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	38 position	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 position	det
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 awkward	advmod
37	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 position	amod
38	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 places	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 honourable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your meeting with the Sultan		you		honourable property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Parizade					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	dare	present	I					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	service					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	infinitive			you		of service	tree rules
6	place		meeting	me		a awkward position		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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