The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 79

"Sire," he said to the Sultan, "I cannot rise and do you the reverence that I am sure should be paid to your rank."

Who acts: man · What happens: say, not rise, do, be, pay · To what, where: Sultan · 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 (man), 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 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Sultan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rise	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 rise	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 rise	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 rise	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 rise	advmod
15	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 do	cc
17	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 rise	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 reverence	det
20	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 sure	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sure	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sure	cop
24	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 do	advcl
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 paid	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 paid	aux:pass
27	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 sure	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 rank	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 rank	nmod:poss
30	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 paid	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 rise	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man		the Sultan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sultan=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not rise in a quote	can	man				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	present	man not said here	the Sultan = sultan			tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	man			sure property	tree rules
5	pay in a quote	should · passive	man not said here			to your rank	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»

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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