The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 19
Then, dismissing the attendants, she said to her friend:
Who acts: Badoura · What happens: dismiss, say · To what, where: attendants, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badoura), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dismissing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | dismissing | dismiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 attendants | det |
| 5 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dismissing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismissing | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismiss | gerund | Badoura not said here | the attendants | then | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Badoura | Badoura's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=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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