The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 98
"Saouy," answered the king, "you seem to find that a very great sum.
Who acts: Saouy, king · What happens: answer, seem, find · To what, where: king · 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 (Saouy, king), 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 Saouy | punct |
| 2 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Saouy | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seem | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 seem | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 seem | nsubj |
| 11 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seem | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 sum | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sum | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 great | advmod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sum | amod |
| 18 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Saouy | the king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | the king = king | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | the king = king not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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