The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 19
"Sire," replied they, "the hunchback having drunk more than was good for him, escaped from the palace and was seen wandering about the town, where this morning he was found dead.
Who acts: Sire, hunchback, knots · What happens: reply, have, be, escape, see, wonder · To what, where: more, palace, morning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, hunchback, knots), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 good | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hunchback | det |
| 10 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 good | nsubj |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 hunchback | acl |
| 12 | drunk | drunk | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 having | obj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 more | fixed |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | cop |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 good | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 escaped | punct |
| 20 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 escaped | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 seen | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 escaped | conj |
| 27 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 seen | xcomp |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 town | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 town | det |
| 30 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wandering | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 found | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 found | advmod |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 morning | det |
| 34 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 found | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 found | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 found | aux:pass |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 town | acl:relcl |
| 38 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 found | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | gerund | the hunchback not said here | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | knots = knot | for hunchback; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | escape in a quote | past | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past · passive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | gerund | about the town | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about town=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | find in a quote | past · passive | this morning | dead property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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