The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 103
"Unfortunate king," said the Sultan, "I will do what I can to avenge you."
Who acts: Unfortunate king, Sultan · What happens: say, do, avenge · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unfortunate king, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 2 | Unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | 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 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 avenge | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 avenge | advcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 avenge | nsubj:outer |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 avenge | mark |
| 18 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 avenge | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 avenge | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 avenge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Unfortunate king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | Unfortunate king = king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | avenge in a quote | to-infinitive | the Sultan | you | tree rules |
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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