The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 109
Then Maimoune turning to the genie said: "Well, are you satisfied that my prince surpasses your princess?
Who acts: Maimoune, you, prince · What happens: turn, say, be, surpass · To what, where: genie, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maimoune, you, prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Maimoune | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 genie | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 genie | det |
| 6 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turning | obl |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 satisfied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 satisfied | punct |
| 10 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 satisfied | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Well | punct |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 satisfied | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 satisfied | nsubj |
| 14 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 surpasses | mark |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 prince | nmod:poss |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 surpasses | nsubj |
| 18 | surpasses | surpass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 satisfied | advcl |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 princess | nmod:poss |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 surpasses | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Maimoune not said here | the genie | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to genie=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Maimoune | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | satisfy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | surpass in a quote | present | my prince | your princess | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme |
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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