The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 45
O Silent One," said the Sultan, "I am told that you know many strange stories.
Who acts: Sultan, you · What happens: say, tell, know · To what, where: I, many strange stories · 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 (Sultan, you), 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 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 2 Silent | case |
| 2 | Silent | Silent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 3 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Silent | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Silent | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Silent | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux:pass |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | ccomp |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stories | amod |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stories | amod |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 know | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Sultan | of Silent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | you | many strange stories | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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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