The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 7
"Charming Persian," answered Noureddin, "how could I be guilty of such baseness?
Who acts: Charming · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: Noureddin · 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 (Charming), 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 | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
| 2 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Charming | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guilty | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 guilty | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 guilty | advmod |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 guilty | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 guilty | nsubj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 guilty | cop |
| 14 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 baseness | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 baseness | amod |
| 17 | baseness | baseness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guilty | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | Charming | Noureddin | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent noureddin=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | could | Charming | of such baseness; guilty property | tree rules |
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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