The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 14
"I confess, Prince," said the vizir, "that there is some foundation for what you say.
Who acts: vizir, you · What happens: confess, say, be · To what, where: Prince, foundation · 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 (vizir, you), 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 confess | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 confess | nsubj |
| 3 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Prince | punct |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 confess | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 confess | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 confess | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vizir | det |
| 10 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 foundation | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 foundation | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 is | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 foundation | cop |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 foundation | det |
| 17 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vizir | appos |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 foundation | nmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 say | nsubj |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess in a quote | present | the vizir = vizir | Prince | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the vizir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | some foundation | for the vizir | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | 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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