The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 152
Good-day," he answered; "is it possible that you do not recognise me?"
Who acts: beggar, it, you · What happens: answer, be, not recognise · To what, where: me · 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 (beggar, it, you), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Good | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 possible | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 possible | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 possible | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 possible | nsubj |
| 12 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 recognise | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 recognise | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 recognise | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 recognise | advmod |
| 17 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 possible | csubj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 recognise | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 possible | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | beggar | day | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not recognise | present · do-support | you | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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