The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 51
"Know," replied Maimoune, "that he is in much the same case as your princess.
Who acts: Maimoune, Charming · What happens: know, reply, be · To what, where: much same case · 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, Charming), 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 Know | punct |
| 2 | Know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Know | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Know | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 case | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 case | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 case | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 case | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 case | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 case | case |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 case | amod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 case | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 case | amod |
| 16 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 princess | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 princess | nmod:poss |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 case | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Maimoune | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Charming | the much same case | as your princess | 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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