The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 44
"Fair Maimoune," continued Danhasch, "this is the present state of affairs.
Who acts: Fair Maimoune, this · What happens: continue, be · To what, where: Danhasch, present state
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 (Fair Maimoune, this), 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 | _ | 3 Maimoune | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Maimoune | amod |
| 3 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maimoune | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maimoune | punct |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Danhasch | Danhasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 state | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 state | punct |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 state | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 state | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 state | det |
| 13 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 state | amod |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 affairs | case |
| 16 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 state | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Fair Maimoune | Danhasch | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent danhasch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | the present state | of affairs | 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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