The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 12
My story, said the Third Calender, is quite different from those of my two friends.
Who acts: story · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Third Calender, those · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 story | nmod:poss |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Calender | det |
| 6 | Third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 Calender | amod |
| 7 | Calender | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing Typo=Yes | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 different | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 different | cop |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 different | advmod |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 different | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 friends | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 friends | nummod |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 those | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My story | the Third Calender | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent calendar=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | those | different 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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