The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 107
Scheherazade did not answer her sister, but turned to the Sultan. "
Who acts: Scheherazade · What happens: not answer, turn · To what, where: sister
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 (Scheherazade), 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 | Scheherazade | Scheherazade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 answer | advmod |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Sultan | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sultan | det |
| 12 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | Scheherazade | Dinarzade's sister | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sister=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | to the Sultan result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sultan=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: «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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