The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 39
"This basket," said Alnaschar to himself, "has cost me a hundred drachmas--all that I possess in the world.
Who acts: basket, that · What happens: say, cost, possess · To what, where: Alnaschar, hundred drachmas, basket, world · 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 (basket, that), 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 | _ | 3 basket | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 basket | det |
| 3 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 basket | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 basket | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cost | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cost | punct |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cost | aux |
| 13 | cost | cost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 cost | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 drachmas | nummod |
| 17 | drachmas | drachma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cost | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 possess | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 that | det:predet |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 possess | nsubj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 possess | nsubj |
| 22 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cost | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 possess | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | this basket | Alnaschar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cost in a quote | present · perfect | hundred drachmas | this basket = basket | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary drachma=Value | ||||
| 3 | possess in a quote | present | that | the world | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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