The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 22
"Tell me, madam, I pray you," he said at last, "how this marvellous tree came into your garden?
Who acts: Sultan, marvellous tree · What happens: tell, pray, say, come · To what, where: madam, Sultan, you, last, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, marvellous tree), 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 | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 madam | punct |
| 5 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | nsubj |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tell | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 came | advmod |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | amod |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 garden | nmod:poss |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | madam | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | Sultan | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Sultan | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | this marvellous tree | your garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location |
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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