The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 39
"But, madam," inquired the Persian, "what harm is there in that?"
Who acts: madam · What happens: inquire, be · To what, where: Persian, that · 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 (madam), 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 | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 madam | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
| 7 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Persian | det |
| 9 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 there | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 there | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 there | nsubj |
| 13 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 there | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 there | cop |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 inquired | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 there | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | madam | the Persian | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent persian=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | there 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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