The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 103
My daughter," cried the Sultan, "how sad is my condition!
Who acts: daughter · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: Sultan, sad condition
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 daughter | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 daughter | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sultan | det |
| 7 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sad | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sad | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 sad | advmod |
| 11 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 condition | amod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 condition | cop |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 condition | nmod:poss |
| 14 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | My daughter | the Sultan | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my sad condition | 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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