The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 78
"He tried to rob me," replied the merchant, "and very nearly choked me."
Who acts: policeman, merchant · What happens: try, rob, reply, choke · To what, where: merchant · 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 (policeman, merchant), 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 tried | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 rob | mark |
| 5 | rob | rob | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 rob | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 merchant | det |
| 11 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 merchant | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 merchant | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 choked | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 choked | advmod |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 choked | advmod |
| 17 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 choked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | past | policeman | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rob not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | policeman not said here | the merchant = merchant | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the merchant | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | choke in a quote | past | the merchant not said here | the merchant = merchant | nearly property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Destination |
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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