The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 19
Immediately an enormous and frightful genie rose out of the earth, saying:
Who acts: enormous genie · What happens: rise, say · To what, where: earth · 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 (enormous genie), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 rose | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 genie | det |
| 3 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 genie | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 frightful | cc |
| 5 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 enormous | conj |
| 6 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rose | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a enormous genie | the earth | immediately property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out earth=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a enormous genie not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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