The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 67
"What!" said the king; "is that wretch still alive?
Who acts: wretch · What happens: say, be · To what, where: king, wretch · 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 (wretch), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wretch | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wretch | cop |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 wretch | det |
| 12 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 alive | advmod |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wretch | amod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 wretch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | that wretch | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that wretch | 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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