The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 78
"Madam," returned the vizir, "you shall be obeyed.
Who acts: Madam · What happens: return, obey · To what, where: vizir, you
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 (Madam), 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 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vizir | det |
| 7 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 obeyed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 obeyed | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 obeyed | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 obeyed | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 13 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Madam | the vizir | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Theme | ||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | shall · passive | you | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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