The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 71
"It is of no use," said the grand-vizir, "I shall never consent.
Who acts: death, use · What happens: be, say, not consent · To what, where: grand vizir · 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 (death, use), 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 | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 use | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 use | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 use | det |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vizir | det |
| 11 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vizir | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 grand | punct |
| 13 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 consent | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 consent | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 consent | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 consent | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 consent | advmod |
| 19 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 vizir | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | death | of no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | no use | the grand vizir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vizir=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not consent in a quote | shall | no use = use | the grand vizir not said here | 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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