The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 41
"My slave," said the princess, "this is the Sultan; make him a pretty speech."
Who acts: slave, this · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: princess, Sultan, pretty speech · 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 (slave, this), 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 | _ | 3 slave | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 slave | nmod:poss |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slave | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 slave | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sultan | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sultan | punct |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 Sultan | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Sultan | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sultan | det |
| 14 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 speech | det |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 speech | amod |
| 20 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My slave | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | the Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | a pretty speech | Sultan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary speech=Product |
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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