The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 64
One of the natives, who understood this tongue, then came forward saying:
Who acts: natives · What happens: understand, say · To what, where: tongue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 came | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 natives | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 natives | det |
| 4 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 understood | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 understood | nsubj |
| 7 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 natives | acl:relcl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 tongue | det |
| 9 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understood | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saying | aux |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the natives | this tongue | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tongue=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | 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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