The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 4
"Sire," replied the captain, "I have on board fifty very large pots of olives.
Who acts: Sire · What happens: reply, have · To what, where: captain, large pots, board · 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 (Sire), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 captain | det |
| 7 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 board | case |
| 13 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 14 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 board | flat |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 large | advmod |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pots | amod |
| 17 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 olives | case |
| 19 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pots | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | the captain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Sire | large pots of olives | board | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
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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