The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 8
Knock him on the head with a hammer," exclaimed another. "
Who acts: you · What happens: knock, exclaim · To what, where: use, head, another
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 (you), 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 | Knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Knock | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knock | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hammer | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hammer | det |
| 8 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Knock | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knock | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knock | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | imperative | you not said here | use | the head | with a hammer | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on head=Destination | ||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | you not said here | another | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=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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