The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 38
"But," added the third, "it may interest you, madam, to know that we are not men of low birth, but are all three sons of kings, and of kings, too, whom the world holds in high esteem."
Who acts: answer, we, world · What happens: add, interest, know, not be, be, hold · To what, where: third, you, men, three sons, kings, high esteem · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (answer, we, world), 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 | _ | 5 added | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 added | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 third | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 added | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 interest | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 interest | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 interest | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 interest | aux |
| 12 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 added | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 interest | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 madam | punct |
| 15 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interest | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 added | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 men | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 men | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 men | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 men | advmod |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 know | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 birth | case |
| 25 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 birth | amod |
| 26 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 men | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sons | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 sons | cc |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 sons | cop |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 sons | advmod |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 sons | nummod |
| 32 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 men | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 kings | case |
| 34 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sons | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 kings | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 kings | cc |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 kings | case |
| 38 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 men | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 kings | punct |
| 40 | too | too | ADV | _ | 38 kings | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 holds | punct |
| 42 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 holds | obj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 world | det |
| 44 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 holds | nsubj |
| 45 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 kings | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 esteem | case |
| 47 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 esteem | amod |
| 48 | esteem | esteem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 holds | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 men | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | the third | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | interest in a quote | may | answer | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | we | men and kings | of low birth | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | three sons | of kings; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hold in a quote | present | the world | kings | high esteem | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme in esteem=Location |
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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