The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 80
It wants still five days to his next visit, and I hope that during that time you will do me the honour to be my guest."
Who acts: talisman, I, you, prince · What happens: want, hope, do, be, visit · To what, where: that, honour, me, guest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (talisman, I, you, prince), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 five | advmod |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wants | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 visit | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 visit | nmod:poss |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 visit | amod |
| 9 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hope | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hope | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hope | nsubj |
| 13 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 hope | obj |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hope | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | iobj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 honour | det |
| 23 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 guest | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 guest | cop |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 guest | nmod:poss |
| 27 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hope | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | talisman | day | to prince's next visit | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to visit=Attribute | |||
| 2 | hope | present | I | that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | future | you | the honour | me | time | tree rules | ||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | you not said here | my guest | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | visit | prince | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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