The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 57
It is on my account, I know, that you have resisted the Sultan's wishes, and I am very grateful to you for it.
Who acts: meeting, I, you, Sultan · What happens: be, know, resist, wish · To what, where: account, wishes, 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 (meeting, I, you, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 account | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 account | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 account | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 account | nmod:poss |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 account | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 resisted | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 resisted | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 resisted | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 resisted | aux |
| 13 | resisted | resist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 know | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sultan | det |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Sultan | case |
| 17 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 resisted | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grateful | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grateful | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 grateful | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 grateful | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 grateful | advmod |
| 23 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 know | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 grateful | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grateful | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 account | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | meeting | my account | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | resist | present · perfect | you | the Sultan's wishes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | you | for meeting; grateful property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wish | the Sultan | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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