The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 5
"Eat as much as you want," said the Barmecide. "
Who acts: you, Barmecide · What happens: eat, want, say · To what, where: much · 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, Barmecide), 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 | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 2 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Eat | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 want | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 much | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Eat | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Barmecide | det |
| 12 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | imperative | you not said here | much | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Barmecide | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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