The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 38
"What!" exclaimed the lady, "you ask me that, knowing that my son Noureddin has been alone with you?"
Who acts: lady, you, son · What happens: exclaim, ask, know, be · To what, where: lady · 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 (lady, you, son), 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 | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 exclaimed | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 ask | nsubj |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ask | iobj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 me | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knowing | punct |
| 15 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ask | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 alone | mark |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 alone | nsubj |
| 19 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | appos |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 alone | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 alone | cop |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 knowing | ccomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 knowing | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 knowing | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the lady | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | the lady = lady | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | gerund | you not said here | with you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present · perfect | my son | alone property | tree rules |
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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