The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 26
Finish," said he, "the story of the genius and the merchant.
Who acts: Finish · What happens: say, story · 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 (Finish), 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 | Finish | finish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finish | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finish | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 story | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 story | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 genius | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 genius | det |
| 12 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 merchant | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 genius | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Finish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | story | Finish | of the genius and the merchant | tree rules |
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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