The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 78
The Sultan lost no time in declaring the object of his visit, and leading the chief of the dervishes aside, he said to him, "Noble scheik, you have guessed perhaps what I have come to ask you?"
Who acts: Sultan, dervish · What happens: lose, declare, lead, say, guess, come · To what, where: object, chief, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, dervish), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 declaring | mark |
| 7 | declaring | declare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lost | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 object | det |
| 9 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 declaring | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 visit | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 visit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 object | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 said | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leading | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dervishes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dervishes | det |
| 20 | dervishes | dervish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 chief | nmod |
| 21 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 15 leading | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leading | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 scheik | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 scheik | punct |
| 29 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 scheik | amod |
| 30 | scheik | scheik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 guessed | punct |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 guessed | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 guessed | aux |
| 34 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 scheik | parataxis |
| 35 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 36 what | advmod |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 come | obl |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 come | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 guessed | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 ask | mark |
| 41 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | parataxis |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 ask | iobj |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 scheik | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the Sultan | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | gerund | the Sultan not said here | the object of Sultan's visit | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | dervish not said here | the chief of the dervishes | aside property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | dervish | Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | guess in a quote | present · perfect | Sultan | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present · perfect | dervish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | Sultan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 8 | visit | Sultan | 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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