The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 61
He was thunderstruck, and turning to the vizir said: "What sayest thou?
Who acts: turning · What happens: thunderstruck, turn, say · To what, where: Sultan, vizir, thou · 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 (turning), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thunderstruck | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thunderstruck | aux:pass |
| 3 | thunderstruck | thunderstruck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 6 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 said | csubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 vizir | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizir | det |
| 9 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turning | obl |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thunderstruck | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 sayest | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sayest | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 sayest | obj |
| 14 | sayest | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 sayest | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 thunderstruck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thunderstruck | past · passive | Sultan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | the vizir | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to vizir=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | turning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | thou | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme thou=Manner |
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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