The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 99
"Madam," replied the prince, "I make no doubt that there are as many good, virtuous, sweet, and amiable women as there are others very much the reverse.
Who acts: Madam, doubt · What happens: reply, make, be · To what, where: prince, doubt, reverse · 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 (Madam, doubt), 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 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 doubt | det |
| 13 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 are | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 are | expl |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 reverse | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 women | amod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 women | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 virtuous | punct |
| 21 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweet | punct |
| 23 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 amiable | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 amiable | cc |
| 26 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | conj |
| 27 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 are | nsubj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 are | mark |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 are | expl |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 reverse | cop |
| 31 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 are | nsubj |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 much | advmod |
| 33 | much | much | ADV | _ | 35 reverse | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 reverse | det |
| 35 | reverse | reverse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Madam | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | Madam | no doubt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | no doubt not said here | the reverse | 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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