The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 102
Sire," replied Scheherazade, "I have a sister who loves me as tenderly as I love her.
Who acts: Sire, I, sister · What happens: reply, have, love · To what, where: sister, me, Dinarzade · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, I, sister), 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 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Scheherazade | Scheherazade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 loves | nsubj |
| 13 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sister | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 loves | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 tenderly | advmod |
| 16 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 loves | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 love | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 love | nsubj |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tenderly | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 love | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | Sire | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | a sister | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | ||||
| 3 | love | present | a sister | me | tenderly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | love | present | I | Dinarzade | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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