The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 40
"Holy Moses!" he exclaimed, "why did I not wait for the light?
Who acts: Holy Moses · What happens: exclaim, not wait · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holy Moses), 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 Moses | punct |
| 2 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 3 Moses | compound |
| 3 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Moses | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Moses | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wait | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wait | punct |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 wait | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wait | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wait | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 wait | advmod |
| 14 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 light | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 light | det |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wait | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Holy Moses | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not wait in a quote | past · do-support | Holy Moses = moses | for the light | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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