The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 1
"I am Sindbad," I replied, "whom men call `the Sailor,' for I have voyaged much upon many seas."
Who acts: Sindbad, men · What happens: be, reply, call, voyage · To what, where: Sindbad, Sailor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad, men), 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 | _ | 4 Sindbad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Sindbad | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Sindbad | cop |
| 4 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sindbad | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 call | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 call | punct |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 call | obj |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 call | nsubj |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | ` | ` | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sailor | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sailor | det |
| 16 | Sailor | Sailor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 call | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 voyaged | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 voyaged | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 voyaged | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 voyaged | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 voyaged | aux |
| 22 | voyaged | voyage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 call | conj |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 voyaged | advmod |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 seas | case |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 seas | amod |
| 26 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 voyaged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Sindbad | Sindbad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Sindbad | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | men | the Sailor | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | voyage in a quote | present · perfect | Sindbad | upon many seas | 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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