The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 107
"I have told you," said the genius, "that it is impossible.
Who acts: genius · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius), 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 | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 genius | det |
| 10 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 impossible | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 impossible | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 impossible | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 impossible | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 impossible | cop |
| 16 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | the genius = genius | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the genius | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the genius not said here | impossible 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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