The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 61
"I can refuse you nothing," replied he, "that is just and reasonable."
Who acts: Scheherazade, that · What happens: refuse, reply, be · To what, where: you · 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 (Scheherazade, that), 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 refuse | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | aux |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 refuse | obj |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 refuse | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reasonable | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 reasonable | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 reasonable | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reasonable | cop |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 reasonable | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reasonable | cc |
| 17 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 refuse | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse in a quote | can | Scheherazade | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Scheherazade | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | reasonable property | 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: «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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