The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 74
The genius considered some time, and then he said, "Very well, I agree to this."
Who acts: genius · What happens: consider, say, agree · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 genius | det |
| 2 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | nsubj |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 13 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 said | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 agree | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 agree | nsubj |
| 17 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 agree | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | the genius | time | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | genius | then | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree in a quote | present | genius | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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