The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 80
The judge, however, would say nothing about this, and lost no time in sending men to fetch away all that Alnaschar had taken from the house.
Who acts: judge · What happens: say, lose, send, fetch away, take · To what, where: nothing, men, all, house · 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 (judge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 judge | det |
| 2 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 judge | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 say | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 sending | mark |
| 17 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lost | advcl |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sending | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fetch | mark |
| 20 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sending | advcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 fetch | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 taken | nsubj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 taken | aux |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 fetch | ccomp |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 taken | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | the judge | nothing | about this; however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | lose | past | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send | gerund | men | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fetch away | to-infinitive | away property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect · passive | all | the house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from house=Initial_Location |
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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