The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 90
"I have followed your advice," he said; "but Camaralzaman declines to marry, and is more obstinate than ever."
Who acts: advice, Camaralzaman · What happens: follow, say, decline, not marry, be · To what, where: advice · 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 (advice, Camaralzaman), 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 | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | aux |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 advice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 declines | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 but | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 declines | cc |
| 14 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 declines | nsubj |
| 15 | declines | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 marry | mark |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 declines | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 obstinate | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 obstinate | cc |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 obstinate | cop |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 obstinate | advmod |
| 22 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 declines | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 ever | case |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 obstinate | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 declines | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 declines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | present · perfect · passive | advice | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme advice=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | advice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | decline in a quote | present | Camaralzaman | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not marry in a quote | to-infinitive | Camaralzaman not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Camaralzaman not said here | obstinate 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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