The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 57
"There is no need for that," retorted Maimoune; "we can satisfy ourselves in another way.
Who acts: need, Maimoune, we · What happens: be, retort, satisfy · To what, where: ourselves, way · 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 (need, Maimoune, we), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 need | det |
| 5 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 need | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 retorted | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 retorted | punct |
| 10 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 is | parataxis |
| 11 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 retorted | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 satisfy | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 satisfy | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 satisfy | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 satisfy | aux |
| 16 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 retorted | conj |
| 17 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 satisfy | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 satisfy | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no need for that | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | retort speech: other | past | Maimoune | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | satisfy in a quote | can | we | ourselves | another way | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer |
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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