Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 7
Sir, says the dervise, give me leave to ask your majesty a question or two.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: say, give, leave, ask · To what, where: dervise, me, majesty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of a Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir), 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 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sir | punct |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dervise | det |
| 5 | dervise | dervise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ask | mark |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leave | advcl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 question | det |
| 15 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 two | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 question | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Sir | the dervise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | your majesty | a question obj | 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: «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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