The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 58
But kings do not like to have their offers refused, and in time he would bear a grudge against you, which would render me very unhappy.
Who acts: kings, offers, Sultan · What happens: not like, have, refuse, bear, render, offer · To what, where: grudge, me
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 (kings, offers, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 like | cc |
| 2 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | xcomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 offers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | offers | offer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 refused | nsubj |
| 10 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bear | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bear | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bear | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bear | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 bear | aux |
| 17 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 grudge | det |
| 19 | grudge | grudge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bear | obj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 bear | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 render | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 render | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 render | aux |
| 25 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bear | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 render | obj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 unhappy | advmod |
| 28 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 render | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | kings | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | kings not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | refuse | past | kings's offers | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bear | would | Sultan | a grudge | time | against you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Patient | ||
| 5 | render | would | me | unhappy property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | offer | kings = king | nom offer «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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