The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 48
"What business is that of yours?" asked the Sultan with a smile; but seeing that the barber had some reasons for his question, he commanded that the tale of the hunchback should be told him.
Who acts: Sultan, barber, hunchback · What happens: be, ask, see, have, command, tell · To what, where: reasons, tale, barber · 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, barber, hunchback), 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 | _ | 7 yours | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 yours | nsubj |
| 3 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yours | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 yours | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 yours | mark |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 yours | case |
| 7 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 yours | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 yours | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sultan | det |
| 12 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 smile | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smile | det |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 commanded | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 commanded | cc |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 commanded | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 barber | det |
| 21 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seeing | ccomp |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 reasons | det |
| 24 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 question | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 question | nmod:poss |
| 27 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reasons | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seeing | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 commanded | nsubj |
| 30 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 told | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tale | det |
| 33 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 told | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 hunchback | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hunchback | det |
| 36 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tale | nmod |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 told | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 told | aux:pass |
| 39 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 commanded | parataxis |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 told | iobj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | of yours | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sultan | with a smile | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | barber not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the barber | some reasons | for barber's question | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | |||
| 5 | command | past | barber | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | should · passive | the tale of the hunchback | barber | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 7 | question | barber | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | tell | the hunchback | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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