The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 25
"Well were you called `the Silent,'" said he; "no name was ever better deserved.
Who acts: barber, name · What happens: call, say, be · To what, where: you · 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 (barber, name), 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 | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 called | discourse |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ` | ` | PUNCT | _ | 8 Silent | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Silent | det |
| 8 | Silent | Silent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Silent | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Silent | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Silent | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 better | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | cop |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 better | advmod |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 called | parataxis |
| 21 | deserved | deserve | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 better | cop |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert in a quote | past · passive | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | barber | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | no name | ever | good property | tree rules |
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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