The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 131
"Sir," replied their spokesman, "we cannot find jewels enough."
Who acts: Sir, we · What happens: reply, not find · To what, where: spokesman, jewels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, we), 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 | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spokesman | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spokesman | spokesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 find | advmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sir | sir's spokesman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find in a quote | can | we | jewels | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme enough=Attribute |
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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