The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 86
"What is this you are saying, great genius?
Who acts: this · What happens: be
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 (this), 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 saying | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 saying | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 saying | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 saying | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | aux |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 genius | punct |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 genius | amod |
| 10 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saying | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · progressive | this | say 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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