The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 25
"And where do you go now?" asked the Caliph.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: Caliph · 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), 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 | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 go | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 go | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caliph | det |
| 12 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · do-support | the Caliph = caliph | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Caliph | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent caliph=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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