The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 110
Noureddin!" he heard him exclaim quite audibly. "
Who acts: Noureddin, One · What happens: hear, exclaim · To what, where: One
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 (Noureddin, One), 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 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noureddin | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noureddin | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | exclaim | exclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | xcomp |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 audibly | advmod |
| 9 | audibly | audibly | ADV | _ | 7 exclaim | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaim | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past | Noureddin | One | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | infinitive | One not said here | audibly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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