The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 50
Sire," he cried, "all the former doctors and astrologers were mere quacks.
Who acts: eunuch, former doctors · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: mere quacks
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eunuch, former doctors), 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 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 quacks | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 quacks | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 doctors | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doctors | det |
| 10 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 doctors | amod |
| 11 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 quacks | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 astrologers | cc |
| 13 | astrologers | astrologer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 doctors | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 quacks | cop |
| 15 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 quacks | amod |
| 16 | quacks | quack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | eunuch | Sire vocative | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | all former doctors and astrologers | mere quacks | tree rules |
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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