The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 28
"Indeed, madam," returned he, "you show me so many wonders that it is impossible to feel any fatigue.
Who acts: Indeed madam, you · What happens: return, show, be, feel · To what, where: Highness, many wonders, Sultan, fatigue · 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 (Indeed madam, you), 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 madam | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 madam | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 returned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 show | nsubj |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 show | iobj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wonders | amod |
| 16 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 show | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 impossible | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 impossible | expl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 impossible | cop |
| 20 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 show | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 feel | mark |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 impossible | csubj |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 fatigue | det |
| 24 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feel | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Indeed madam | Highness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show in a quote | present | you | many wonders | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wonder=Topic | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | feel in a quote | to-infinitive | any fatigue | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatigue=Theme |
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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