The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 79
"Well, you have had your revenge," said the man, catching hold of his arm. "
Who acts: you, man, your · What happens: have, say, catch, revenge, hold · To what, where: revenge, hold, arm · 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 (you, man, your), 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 | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 had | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | aux |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 catching | punct |
| 15 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catching | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 arm | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arm | nmod:poss |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hold | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · perfect | you | your revenge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | the man not said here | hold of policeman's arm | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | revenge in a quote | your | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | hold | policeman's arm | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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