The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 62
Camaralzaman took the talisman and, holding it to the light, cried with surprise, "Sire, you ask me the use of this talisman.
Who acts: Camaralzaman, you · What happens: take, hold, cry, ask, use · To what, where: talisman, light, use, princess · 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 (Camaralzaman, you), 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 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 talisman | det |
| 4 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 took | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 holding | punct |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 holding | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 light | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 light | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 surprise | case |
| 15 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sire | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sire | punct |
| 18 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 light | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ask | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 ask | nsubj |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ask | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 use | det |
| 24 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 talisman | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 talisman | det |
| 27 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 use | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Camaralzaman | the talisman | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent talisman=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Camaralzaman not said here | talisman | to the light and Sire | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | participle | the light and Sire not said here | with surprise | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with surprise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | the use of this talisman | princess | tree rules | |||
| 5 | use in a quote | this talisman | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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