The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 65
"You suppose him to have perished then?" said I.
Who acts: You, I. · What happens: suppose, perish, say · To what, where: captain · 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 (You, I.), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 perished | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 perished | aux |
| 7 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 suppose | advcl |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 perished | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | You | captain | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | perish in a quote | to-infinitive · perfect | You not said here | then | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | I. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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