The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 103
"What, you are dying of hunger?" exclaimed the Barmecide. "
Who acts: you, Barmecide · What happens: die, exclaim · 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 (you, Barmecide), 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 dying | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 dying | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dying | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 dying | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dying | aux |
| 6 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hunger | case |
| 8 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dying | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 dying | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dying | punct |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Barmecide | det |
| 13 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | present · progressive | you | of hunger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the Barmecide | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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