The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 131
"My son, my dear son," I exclaimed, kissing him in a transport of joy. "
Who acts: I · What happens: exclaim, kiss · To what, where: son, transport
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kissing | punct |
| 13 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 exclaimed | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kissing | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 transport | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 transport | det |
| 17 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kissing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transport | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | I | My son | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kiss | gerund | I not said here | son | a transport of joy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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