The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 110
"Never have I heard a finer voice, nor the lute better played.
Who acts: Caliph, lute · What happens: not have, hear, play · To what, where: finer voice · 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 (Caliph, lute), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 7 | finer | finer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 voice | compound |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 played | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 played | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lute | det |
| 12 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 played | nsubj |
| 13 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 played | advmod |
| 14 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | past | Caliph | a finer voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | play in a quote | past | the lute | well property | 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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