The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 100
So great was Noureddin's consternation that he had not a word to say in reply.
Who acts: lord · What happens: be, have, say · To what, where: great consternation, word, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 great | advmod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 consternation | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consternation | cop |
| 4 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 consternation | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Noureddin | case |
| 6 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consternation | advcl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 word | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 word | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 reply | case |
| 16 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consternation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Noureddin's great consternation | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | lord | a word | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | lord not said here | a word not said here | reply | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in reply=Manner |
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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