The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 59
But how can he or any one else know what takes place in this house?
Who acts: Saouy · What happens: know, take · To what, where: place, house · 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 (Saouy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 know | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 know | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 one | cc |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 he | conj |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 one | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 takes | nsubj |
| 11 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | ccomp |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | can | Saouy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | present | place | this house | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in house=Location |
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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