The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 46
"Yes, indeed," replied the genius, "and I will give up to you the third of the merchant's punishment."
Who acts: genius, merchant · What happens: reply, give up, punish · To what, where: third, 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, merchant), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 genius | det |
| 9 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 give | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 third | det |
| 20 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 punishment | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 merchant | det |
| 23 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 merchant | case |
| 25 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 third | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the genius | indeed property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give up in a quote | future | the genius = genius | the third of the merchant's punishment | you | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent third=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | punish in a quote | the merchant | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=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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