The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 58
"Ladies," I replied, "what is the meaning of these strange words--I pray you to tell me?"
Who acts: Ladies · What happens: reply, be, pray, tell · To what, where: meaning, you, Ladies · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ladies | punct |
| 2 | Ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ladies | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 meaning | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 meaning | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 meaning | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 meaning | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 meaning | det |
| 12 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 words | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 words | det |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 meaning | nmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 pray | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pray | nsubj |
| 19 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 pray | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 tell | mark |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 pray | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | iobj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | Ladies | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the meaning | of this strange words | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | present | Ladies = lady | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Ladies = lady not said here | Ladies = lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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