The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 55
My children," he added, "let me embrace you, and embrace each other, not only as brothers and sister, but as having in you the blood royal of Persia which could flow in no nobler veins."
Who acts: heart, me · What happens: add, let, embrace, have, flow · To what, where: children, me, you, each, blood royal, nobler veins · 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 (heart, me), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 children | nmod:poss |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 added | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 children | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 added | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 added | nsubj |
| 6 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 added | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 embrace | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 embrace | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 embrace | cc |
| 15 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | conj |
| 16 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 15 embrace | obj |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brothers | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 brothers | advmod |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 brothers | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 brothers | case |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 embrace | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sister | cc |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brothers | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 flow | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 flow | cc |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 having | mark |
| 28 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 flow | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 having | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 royal | det |
| 32 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 royal | compound |
| 33 | royal | royal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 having | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Persia | case |
| 35 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 royal | nmod |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 having | obj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 flow | aux |
| 38 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 added | parataxis |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 veins | case |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 veins | det |
| 41 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 veins | amod |
| 42 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 flow | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 added | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | heart | My children | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | embrace | infinitive | me not said here | you | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | embrace | infinitive | each | as brothers and sister | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | have | gerund | the blood royal of Persia | in you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | flow | could | no nobler veins | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vein=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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