The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 76
I am now going to begin my story (said the old man), so please attend.
Who acts: I, old man · What happens: go, begin, say, attend · To what, where: 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 (I, old man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 going | advmod |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 begin | mark |
| 6 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begin | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attend | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 attend | advmod |
| 17 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 18 attend | discourse |
| 18 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | now | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | to-infinitive | I not said here | my story | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | my story not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic | ||||
| 4 | attend | infinitive | I not said here | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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