The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 41
"Madam, you know already how I came here, and what I have to say will soon be told.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, come, have, say, tell · To what, where: Madam · 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 (you, I), 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 know | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 came | parataxis |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | xcomp |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | aux |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 told | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 told | aux:pass |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 say | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | you | Madam | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | I | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future · passive | soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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