The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 26
"Wherever the hand of Allah leads me," said Noureddin.
Who acts: hand, Noureddin · What happens: lead, say · To what, where: Noureddin · 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 (hand, Noureddin), 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 leads | punct |
| 2 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 leads | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leads | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Allah | case |
| 6 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | nmod |
| 7 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 leads | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leads | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 leads | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead in a quote | present | the hand of Allah | Noureddin | wherever property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Noureddin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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