The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 87
As to the porter, she requested him to come and help her and her sister.
Who acts: Sadie · What happens: request, come, help · To what, where: Caliph, Sadie
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 (Sadie), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 porter | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 porter | det |
| 4 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 requested | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 porter | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 requested | nsubj |
| 7 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 requested | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 requested | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 help | cc |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sister | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 her | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | past | Sadie | Caliph | as the porter | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Sadie not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | Sadie not said here | Sadie | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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