The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 5
"Ah!" replied the vizir, "something absurd, I feel sure, seeing how I find you."
Who acts: vizir · What happens: reply, feel, see, find · To what, where: you · 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), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vizir | det |
| 7 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 something | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 something | punct |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 vizir | appos |
| 11 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feel | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 feel | nsubj |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 something | parataxis |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feel | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seeing | punct |
| 17 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | advcl |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 find | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seeing | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the vizir | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | present | the vizir = vizir | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | gerund | the vizir not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | present | the vizir = vizir | you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
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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