The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 3
"Oh, my lord," he cried, turning to the chief of police, "how nearly have you caused the death of three innocent people!
Who acts: chief, you, three innocent people · What happens: cry, turn, have, cause, die · To what, where: chief, death · 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 (chief, you, three innocent people), 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 | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 lord | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 11 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turning | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 police | case |
| 16 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chief | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 nearly | advmod |
| 20 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 21 have | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 turning | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 caused | nsubj |
| 23 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 death | det |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caused | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 people | case |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 people | nummod |
| 28 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 people | amod |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 death | nmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | chief | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | chief not said here | the chief of police | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to chief=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | chief not said here | nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cause in a quote | past | you | the death of three innocent people | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | ||||
| 5 | die in a quote | three innocent people | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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