The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 56
Prince," said they, "we must leave you, and never was it so hard to part from any of our friends.
Who acts: Prince, ladies · What happens: say, leave, not be · To what, where: you, custom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, ladies), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Prince | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Prince | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 they | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 leave | aux |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 was | advmod |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 was | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 hard | advmod |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 was | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 part | mark |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hard | advcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 any | case |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 part | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 friends | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friends | nmod:poss |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 any | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | must | ladies = lady | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not be | past | Prince not said here | custom | hard property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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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