The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 37
"Well, you must know better than I," said the captain. "
Who acts: you, captain · What happens: know, say · 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, captain), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 know | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 I | case |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 better | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 captain | det |
| 14 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | must | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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