The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 80
"You are right," returned the Sultan, "and you will give me fresh life if you can by your prayers deliver my daughter from the strange malady that has taken possession of her."
Who acts: You, prayers, your · What happens: be, return, give, deliver, take, pray · To what, where: Sultan, fresh life, sire, daughter, strange malady, princess
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 (You, prayers, your), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sultan | det |
| 9 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 life | amod |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 can | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 can | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 deliver | mark |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 deliver | nsubj |
| 25 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | advcl |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deliver | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 malady | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 malady | det |
| 30 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 malady | amod |
| 31 | malady | malady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deliver | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 taken | aux |
| 34 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 malady | acl:relcl |
| 35 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 taken | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 possession | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | You not said here | the Sultan | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | you | fresh life | sire | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient life=Theme | |||
| 4 | deliver in a quote | present | your prayers | my daughter | the strange malady | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme from malady=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | take in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the strange malady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme possession=Destination | |||||
| 6 | pray in a quote | your | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | possess in a quote | princess | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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