The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 35
"From the king's letter," said he, "I judged that he was a wise man.
Who acts: king · What happens: say, judge, be, letter · To what, where: letter, wise man · 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 (king), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 6 letter | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 letter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 letter | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 letter | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 judged | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 judged | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 judged | nsubj |
| 14 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 man | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 man | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 judged | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | the king's letter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | judge in a quote | past | king | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | king | a wise man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | letter in a quote | the king | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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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