The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 4
But these savages devour men!" said they. "
Who acts: savages · What happens: devour, say · To what, where: men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (savages), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 devour | cc |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 savages | det |
| 3 | savages | savage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 devour | nsubj |
| 4 | devour | devour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 devour | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 devour | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 devour | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 devour | conj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 devour | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 devour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | infinitive | this savages | men | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | savages = savage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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