The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 91
"My good man, where do you come from?" replied the servant. "
Who acts: you, servant · What happens: come, reply · 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, servant), 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 | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 man | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 come | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 come | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 servant | det |
| 15 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | the servant | vn respond-113 «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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