The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 39
"Oh, madam," replied he, "how can you desire me to quit you in the state in which I am?
Who acts: Sadia, you · What happens: reply, desire, quit · To what, where: Sadia, you, state · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sadia, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desire | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 desire | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 desire | advmod |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 desire | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 desire | nsubj |
| 14 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 desire | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 quit | mark |
| 17 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 desire | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 quit | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 state | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 state | det |
| 21 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quit | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 am | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 am | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 state | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | Sadia | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | desire in a quote | can | you | Sadia | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | quit in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | the state | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source |
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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