The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 47
"Never mind my stories for the present," replied the barber, "but will your Highness graciously be pleased to explain why this Jew, this Christian, and this Mussulman, as well as this dead body, are all here?"
Who acts: you, barber, Highness, Jew · What happens: not mind, reply, be, explain · To what, where: 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 (you, barber, Highness, Jew), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stories | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mind | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 present | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 present | det |
| 8 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 barber | det |
| 13 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 pleased | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pleased | aux |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pleased | nsubj |
| 20 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 22 pleased | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pleased | cop |
| 22 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mind | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 explain | mark |
| 24 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pleased | advcl |
| 25 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 here | advmod |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 Jew | det |
| 27 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 here | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Christian | punct |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 Christian | det |
| 30 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Jew | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mussulman | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Mussulman | cc |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 Mussulman | det |
| 34 | Mussulman | Mussulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Jew | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 body | punct |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 41 body | cc |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 as | fixed |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 as | fixed |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 body | det |
| 40 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 body | amod |
| 41 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Jew | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Jew | punct |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 here | cop |
| 44 | all | all | ADV | _ | 45 here | advmod |
| 45 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 explain | advmod |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my stories | for the present | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the barber | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | your Highness | graciously, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | your Highness not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | this Jew and this Christian and this Mussulman as this dead body | all, here 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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