The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 66
"Do you not know," was the answer, "that the son of the grand-vizir is to marry the Sultan's daughter to-night?"
Who acts: you, son · What happens: not know, be · To what, where: answer · 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 (you, son), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answer | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 answer | det |
| 10 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 marry | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 marry | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 vizir | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vizir | det |
| 18 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 vizir | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 grand | punct |
| 20 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 marry | cop |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 marry | mark |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sultan | det |
| 25 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Sultan | case |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 marry | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 night | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 to | punct |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 marry | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | you not said here | the answer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the son of the grand vizir | night | marry property | 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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