The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 11
Taking them into a room apart, Hagi Hassan exclaimed as soon as she had unveiled, "My lord, is not this the slave your father bought for 10,000 pieces?"
Who acts: Hagi, lord · What happens: take, exclaim, unveil, not be, buy · To what, where: words, room, Hagi, slave, father · 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 (Hagi, lord), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 exclaimed | advcl |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 room | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 6 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 1 Taking | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 8 | Hagi | Hagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hagi | flat |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 exclaimed | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 unveiled | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 unveiled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 unveiled | aux |
| 16 | unveiled | unveil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 soon | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lord | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 lord | punct |
| 19 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lord | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 slave | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lord | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 slave | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 slave | advmod |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 slave | det |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 slave | det |
| 26 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 slave | conj |
| 29 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 father | acl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 pieces | case |
| 31 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 pieces | nummod |
| 32 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bought | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 father | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 slave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Hagi not said here | words = word | a room | apart property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Hagi | soon property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | unveil | past · perfect · passive | Hagi | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | My lord | this slave and your father | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | buy in a quote | participle | your father not said here | for 10,000 pieces | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for piece=Beneficiary |
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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