The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 106
Then he said to my brother, "Why don't you wash your hands too?" and Schacabac, supposing that it was a joke on the part of the Barmecide (though he could see none himself), drew near, and imitated his motion.
Who acts: water, brother, you, hand · What happens: say, not wash, suppose, be, see, draw · To what, where: brother, hands, joke, part, none, motion · 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 (water, brother, you, hand), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wash | punct |
| 9 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 wash | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wash | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wash | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 wash | nsubj |
| 13 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wash | obj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 wash | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 wash | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wash | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Schacabac | cc |
| 20 | Schacabac | Schacabac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wash | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 supposing | punct |
| 22 | supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wash | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 joke | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 joke | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 joke | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 joke | det |
| 27 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 supposing | ccomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 part | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 part | det |
| 30 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 joke | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Barmecide | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Barmecide | det |
| 33 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 part | nmod |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 see | punct |
| 35 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 38 see | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 see | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 see | aux |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wash | parataxis |
| 39 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 38 see | obj |
| 40 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 none | nmod |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 see | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 drew | punct |
| 43 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 44 | near | near | ADV | _ | 43 drew | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 imitated | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 imitated | cc |
| 47 | imitated | imitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 motion | nmod:poss |
| 49 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 imitated | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | water | my brother | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not wash in a quote | present · do-support | my brother = brother | your hands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suppose | gerund | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | hand | a joke | the part of the Barmecide | tree rules | |||
| 5 | see | could | water | none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | draw | past | water not said here | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | imitate | past | water not said here | water's motion | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Theme | ||||
| 8 | motion | water | nom motion «communication intransitive»: poss=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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