The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 102
"My lord," answered my brother, "I swear that I have not broken my fast this whole day."
Who acts: lord · What happens: answer, swear, not break · To what, where: brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swear | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 swear | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 swear | nsubj |
| 12 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 broken | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 broken | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 broken | advmod |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 swear | ccomp |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fast | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 broken | xcomp |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 day | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fast | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My lord | my brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | present | My lord = lord | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not break in a quote | present · perfect | My lord = lord | fast property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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