Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 6
What I have here said, may serve as a moral to an Arabian fable, which I find translated into French by Monsieur Galland.
Who acts: I, Arabian fable · What happens: say, serve, find, translate · To what, where: Arabian fable, French · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Arabian fable), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 said | obj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 serve | punct |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 serve | aux |
| 8 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 moral | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moral | det |
| 11 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 serve | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 fable | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fable | det |
| 14 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fable | amod |
| 15 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 serve | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 find | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fable | acl:relcl |
| 20 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 find | xcomp |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 French | case |
| 22 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 translated | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Monsieur | case |
| 24 | Monsieur | Monsieur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 translated | obl:agent |
| 25 | Galland | Galland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Monsieur | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | I | here | What obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||
| 2 | serve | may | as a moral; to a Arabian fable | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as moral=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | find | present | I | a Arabian fable | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | translate | participle | a Arabian fable not said here | into French result; Monsieur obl:agent | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into french=Result |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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