The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 56
As I was unable to speak, I placed my hand on my head to show that it was true.
Who acts: I, head · What happens: be, speak, place, show · To what, where: hand, head · 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 (I, head), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 unable | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 unable | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unable | cop |
| 4 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 speak | mark |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unable | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 placed | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 placed | nsubj |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unable | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 show | mark |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 placed | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 true | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 true | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 true | cop |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 show | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | place | past | I | my hand | my head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on head=Destination | |||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | head | true property | 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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