The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 10
"What," replied he, "do you live in Bagdad, and not know that here lives the noble Sindbad the Sailor, that famous traveller who sailed over every sea upon which the sun shines?"
Who acts: feasting, you, famous traveller, sun · What happens: reply, live, not know, sail over, shine · To what, where: Bagdad, noble Sindbad, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasting, you, famous traveller, sun), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 replied | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 live | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Bagdad | case |
| 13 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 lives | mark |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 lives | advmod |
| 20 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sindbad | det |
| 22 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Sindbad | amod |
| 23 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lives | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sailor | det |
| 25 | Sailor | Sailor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sindbad | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 traveller | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 traveller | mark |
| 28 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 traveller | amod |
| 29 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | conj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 sailed | nsubj |
| 31 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 traveller | acl:relcl |
| 32 | over | over | ADV | _ | 31 sailed | advmod |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 sea | det |
| 34 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sailed | obj |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 shines | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sun | det |
| 38 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shines | nsubj |
| 39 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 sailed | parataxis |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | feasting | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present · do-support | you | Bagdad | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bagdad=Location | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | the noble Sindbad | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sail over in a quote | past | famous traveller | every sea | over property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | |||
| 6 | shine in a quote | present | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location |
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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