The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 21
"Alas, sire," was the reply, "the slave's report is only too true!"
Who acts: sire, report, slave · What happens: be, report · To what, where: reply · 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 (sire, report, slave), 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 | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 sire | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 4 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reply | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reply | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reply | det |
| 9 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reply | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 true | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 slave | det |
| 13 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 report | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 slave | case |
| 15 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 true | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 true | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 true | advmod |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 true | advmod |
| 19 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reply | parataxis |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 true | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | past | sire | the reply | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the slave's report | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | report in a quote | the slave | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=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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