The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 107
"If only," she said, "I had an instrument upon which I might play."
Who acts: saloon · What happens: say, have, play · To what, where: instrument · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saloon), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 only | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 said | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 only | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 instrument | det |
| 13 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 play | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 play | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 play | aux |
| 18 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 instrument | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | saloon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | saloon | a instrument | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Patient | ||||
| 3 | play in a quote | might | saloon | upon a instrument | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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