The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 12
I have long been seeking," he exclaimed, "a man of your description, and henceforth my house shall be yours.
Who acts: I, Barmecide, house, your · What happens: seek, exclaim, be, describe · To what, where: man, yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Barmecide, house, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seeking | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seeking | aux |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 seeking | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seeking | aux |
| 5 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seeking | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 description | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 description | nmod:poss |
| 16 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 yours | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 yours | cc |
| 19 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 24 yours | advmod |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 yours | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 yours | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 yours | cop |
| 24 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect · progressive | I | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | Barmecide | a man of your description | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | shall | my house | yours | henceforth property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | describe | your | nom description «communication transitive»: 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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