The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 34
"Are you not a debtor of the King of the Ebony Island?" asked the captain.
Who acts: you, debtor · What happens: not be, ask · To what, where: debtor, captain · 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 (you, debtor), 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 | _ | 6 debtor | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 debtor | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 debtor | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 debtor | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 debtor | det |
| 6 | debtor | debtor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 debtor | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Island | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Island | det |
| 12 | Ebony | Ebony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Island | compound |
| 13 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 debtor | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 debtor | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 captain | det |
| 18 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | you | a debtor | of the King of the Ebony Island | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a debtor | the captain | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent captain=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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