The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 14
As soon as they saw her they agreed that less than 4,000 gold pieces could not be asked.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: see, agree, not ask · To what, where: Hagi, 4,000 gold pieces · 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 (merchants), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 agreed | nsubj |
| 8 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 asked | mark |
| 10 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 12 4,000 | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 less | fixed |
| 12 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 pieces | nummod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pieces | compound |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 asked | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 asked | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 asked | aux:pass |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 agreed | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | merchants = merchant | Hagi | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | merchants = merchant | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not ask speech: ask | could · passive | 4,000 gold pieces | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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