The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 63
"You could not bring me better news," replied Camaralzaman, "and in return I have something pleasant to tell you.
Who acts: You, Camaralzaman, something · What happens: not bring, reply, have, tell · To what, where: better news, Camaralzaman, something, return, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Camaralzaman, something), 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 bring | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bring | advmod |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 news | amod |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 return | case |
| 17 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 something | amod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 pleasant | xcomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring in a quote | could | You | better news | Camaralzaman | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination news=Theme | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Camaralzaman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Camaralzaman | something | return | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | something not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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