The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 118
"You are right," returned the Caliph, "I had forgotten all about it.
Who acts: You, Commander · What happens: be, return, forget · To what, where: Caliph
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Commander), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caliph | det |
| 9 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgotten | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgotten | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 forgotten | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgotten | aux |
| 14 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 right | parataxis |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 it | advmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forgotten | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | You not said here | the Caliph | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caliph=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | past · perfect | Commander of the Faithful = commander | about melancholy | 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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