The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 15
They have requested me, Madam, to be their mouthpiece."
Who acts: ladies · What happens: request, be · To what, where: me, mouthpiece
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 requested | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 requested | aux |
| 3 | requested | request | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 requested | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Madam | punct |
| 6 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 requested | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouthpiece | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 mouthpiece | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mouthpiece | cop |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouthpiece | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouthpiece | mouthpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 requested | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouthpiece | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouthpiece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | present · perfect | ladies = lady | me | Madam obl | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | ladies's mouthpiece | 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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