The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 62
"Then listen," said Scheherazade. "
Who acts: you, Scheherazade · What happens: listen, say · 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 (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 listen | advmod |
| 3 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listen | parataxis |
| 7 | Scheherazade | Scheherazade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | imperative | you not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Scheherazade | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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