The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 8
"Fear nothing," said the Caliph, "only rise up and draw thy nets."
Who acts: nothing · What happens: say, rise up, draw · To what, where: nets · 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 (nothing), 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 | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | compound |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caliph | det |
| 8 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 rise | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 rise | advmod |
| 12 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rise | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 draw | cc |
| 15 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 rise | conj |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 nets | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 draw | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rise | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rise up in a quote | infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | draw in a quote | infinitive | thy nets | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme |
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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