The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 79

"Yes, sire," answered the dervish; "if I am not mistaken, it is the illness of the princess which has procured me this honour."

Who acts: sire · What happens: answer, not be, be, procure · To what, where: dervish, illness, princess · 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 (sire), 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	_	4 sire	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sire	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sire	punct
4	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sire	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sire	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dervish	det
9	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 illness	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 illness	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 mistaken	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 mistaken	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mistaken	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 mistaken	advmod
16	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 illness	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mistaken	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 illness	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 illness	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 illness	det
21	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 princess	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 illness	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 procured	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 procured	aux
27	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 princess	acl:relcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 procured	obj
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 honour	det
30	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 procured	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 illness	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 illness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	sire	the dervish		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dervish=Eventuality
2	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	sire		mistaken property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	sire	the illness	of the princess	tree rules
4	procure in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the princess		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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