The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 12
"Stop, Prince," cried the unhappy vizir, "stay and hear what I have to say."
Who acts: you, unhappy vizir · What happens: stop, cry, stay, hear, have, say · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, unhappy vizir), 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 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Stop | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stop | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vizir | det |
| 9 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 vizir | amod |
| 10 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hear | cc |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stay | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 hear | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 say | mark |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the unhappy vizir | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | infinitive | the unhappy vizir not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | infinitive | the unhappy vizir not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | the unhappy vizir = vizir | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | the unhappy vizir = vizir not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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