The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 45
So saying, she wept bitterly, and all her slaves wept with her.
Who acts: Noureddin, slaves · What happens: say, weep · 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 (Noureddin, slaves), 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 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wept | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wept | nsubj |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 5 wept | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wept | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 slaves | det:predet |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 11 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wept | nsubj |
| 12 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wept | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wept | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Noureddin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | Noureddin | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | Noureddin's slaves | with Noureddin | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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