The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 138
"It is indeed," said the genius, "and because of it I grant to you the third part of the punishment of this merchant."
Who acts: tale, genius · What happens: be, say, grant, punish · To what, where: third part, you, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tale, genius), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 genius | det |
| 9 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grant | cc |
| 13 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 15 it | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 because | fixed |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grant | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 grant | nsubj |
| 17 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 grant | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 21 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 part | amod |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grant | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 punishment | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 punishment | det |
| 25 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 part | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 merchant | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 merchant | det |
| 28 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 punishment | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | tale | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the genius | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grant in a quote | present | the genius = genius | the third part of the punishment of this merchant | you | because tale | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent part=Theme to you=Goal | ||
| 4 | punish in a quote | this merchant | nom punishment «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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