The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 121

He declares that he saw a lady sleeping on his couch last night, and the state you see me in proves how violent contradiction makes him."

Who acts: Doubt, lady, you, violent contradiction · What happens: declare, see, sleep, prove, make · To what, where: lady, couch, state, Doubt · 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 (Doubt, lady, you, violent contradiction), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declares	nsubj
2	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 saw	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 declares	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lady	det
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lady	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 couch	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 couch	nmod:poss
11	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleeping	obl
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleeping	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 state	det
17	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 declares	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	obj
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 proves	mark
22	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 see	advcl
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 makes	advmod
24	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 contradiction	amod
25	contradiction	contradiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 makes	nsubj
26	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 proves	ccomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 makes	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declares	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 declares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	declare speech: other	present	Doubt				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	past	Doubt	a lady			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
3	sleep	gerund	a lady not said here		Doubt's couch	night	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	present	you	the state			tree rules
5	prove	present	you not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	make	present	violent contradiction	Doubt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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