The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 81
"Sire," answered the grand-vizir, "it is her own wish.
Who acts: Sire · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: grand vizir, own wish · 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 (Sire), 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 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizir | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vizir | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 grand | punct |
| 9 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wish | cop |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wish | amod |
| 16 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vizir | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Sire | the grand vizir and beauty's own wish | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent vizir=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Sire | beauty's own wish | 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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