The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 28
The Sultan asked everybody concerned in the hunchback's affair to tell him their stories.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: ask, tell · To what, where: everybody, affair, stories, Sultan · 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 (Sultan), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 everybody | amod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 affair | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hunchback | det |
| 8 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 affair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 hunchback | case |
| 10 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stories | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tell | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sultan | everybody | the hunchback's affair | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everybody=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | circumstances's stories | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=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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