The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 64
"That horrible black must have amassed great wealth," remarked my brother.
Who acts: brother · What happens: amass, remark · To what, where: black · 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 (brother), 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 | _ | 9 wealth | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wealth | nsubj |
| 3 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 amassed | amod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 amassed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 amassed | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 amassed | aux |
| 7 | amassed | amass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wealth | amod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wealth | amod |
| 9 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 12 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wealth | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remarked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wealth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amass in a quote | must · perfect · passive | black | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | my brother | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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