The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 106
He could say no more, for sobs choked his voice, and we all wept together.
Who acts: prince, sobs, we · What happens: say, choke, weep · To what, where: more, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince, sobs, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 say | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 choked | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 choked | mark |
| 8 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 choked | nsubj |
| 9 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 choked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wept | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wept | nsubj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 wept | advmod |
| 16 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 choked | conj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 wept | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | could | prince | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 2 | choke | past | sobs | prince's voice | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme voice=Destination | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | we | all, together property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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