The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 4
"Oh, my lord," answered my brother, who beheld neither meat nor bread, "never have I tasted anything so delicious."
Who acts: lord, brother · What happens: answer, behold, not have, taste · To what, where: brother, meat, anything · 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 (lord, 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 lord | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beheld | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 beheld | nsubj |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brother | acl:relcl |
| 14 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 meat | cc:preconj |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheld | obj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 bread | cc |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meat | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 meat | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 have | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 beheld | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tasted | nsubj |
| 23 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | ccomp |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 tasted | obj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 delicious | advmod |
| 26 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 anything | amod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | my lord | my brother | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | my brother | meat nor bread | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not have in a quote | present | my brother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | taste in a quote | past | my lord = lord | anything | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme anything=Attribute |
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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