The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 111
"We will go no farther," said the false uncle. "
Who acts: We, false uncle · What happens: go, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, false uncle), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 farther | advmod |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 farther | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 uncle | det |
| 11 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 uncle | amod |
| 12 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | We | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the false uncle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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