The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 76
"Speak then," replied the captain, "I'm all attention."
Who acts: captain · What happens: speak, reply, be · To what, where: attention · 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 (captain), 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 Speak | punct |
| 2 | Speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Speak | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Speak | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Speak | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 captain | det |
| 8 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 attention | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 attention | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 attention | nsubj |
| 12 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 attention | cop |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 attention | det |
| 14 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 captain | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 attention | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 attention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | then | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the captain | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the captain = captain | all attention | 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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