The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 84
"Great king of the genii," cried the monster, "I will never again disobey you!"
Who acts: Great king · What happens: cry, disobey · To what, where: monster, 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 (Great king), 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 | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 genii | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 genii | det |
| 6 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 king | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monster | det |
| 11 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disobey | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 disobey | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 disobey | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 disobey | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 again | advmod |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 disobey | advmod |
| 18 | disobey | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 disobey | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 disobey | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 disobey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Great king of the genii | the monster | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Topic | ||||
| 2 | disobey in a quote | future | Great king of the genii = king | you | again | 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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