The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 60
"So, captain," said I, "the merchant who owned those bales was called Sindbad?"
Who acts: captain, merchant · What happens: say, own, call · To what, where: bales, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, merchant), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 captain | punct |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 captain | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 captain | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 merchant | det |
| 12 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 owned | nsubj |
| 14 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 bales | det |
| 16 | bales | bale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 owned | obj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | own in a quote | past | the merchant | that bales | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bale=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call in a quote | past · passive | the merchant | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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