The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 76
"What, are you still so obstinate?" exclaimed the grand-vizir. "
Who acts: you, grand vizir · What happens: be, exclaim · 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, grand vizir), 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 obstinate | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 obstinate | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 obstinate | nsubj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 obstinate | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 obstinate | advmod |
| 8 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 obstinate | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 obstinate | punct |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vizir | det |
| 13 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vizir | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 grand | punct |
| 15 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 vizir | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 vizir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | still | obstinate property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the grand vizir | 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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