The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 83
"Let there be no mistake, vizir," said the Sultan. "
Who acts: mistake, Sultan · What happens: let, be, 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 (mistake, Sultan), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 mistake | det |
| 6 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 be | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 vizir | punct |
| 8 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mistake | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultan | det |
| 13 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | be in a quote | infinitive | no mistake and vizir | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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