The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 22
The Caliph (still in the character of fisherman) said to him, "Sir, I perceive that this fair lady is your slave.
Who acts: Caliph, fair lady · What happens: say, perceive, be · To what, where: Noureddin, Sir, slave · 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 (Caliph, fair lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 character | punct |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 character | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 character | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 character | det |
| 7 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Caliph | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fisherman | case |
| 9 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 character | nmod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 character | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sir | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sir | punct |
| 16 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 perceive | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 perceive | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 perceive | nsubj |
| 19 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 slave | mark |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 lady | det |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lady | amod |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 slave | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 slave | cop |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 slave | nmod:poss |
| 26 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perceive | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Caliph | Noureddin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | perceive in a quote | present | the Caliph = caliph | Sir | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this fair lady | your slave | 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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