The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 75
I will sell it to the founder," he said; "with the money I shall get for it I shall buy a measure of wheat."
Who acts: I, sire · What happens: sell, say, get, buy, measure · To what, where: pot, measure, wheat · 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 (I, sire), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | aux |
| 3 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sell | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 founder | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 founder | det |
| 7 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 money | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 money | det |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 get | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 buy | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 buy | aux |
| 24 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 get | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 measure | det |
| 26 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 buy | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wheat | case |
| 28 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 measure | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sell | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | future | I | pot | to the founder | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | sire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | shall | I | with the money; for pot | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for it=Source | ||||
| 4 | buy | shall | I | a measure of wheat | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme | ||||
| 5 | measure | wheat | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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