The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 13
Another slave, hearing this, said: "There is an old one on the cornice there which he can have."
Who acts: slave, old one · What happens: hear, say, be, have · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (slave, old one), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 slave | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hearing | punct |
| 4 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 slave | acl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hearing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 slave | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 10 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 cornice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cornice | det |
| 17 | cornice | cornice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 cornice | advmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 have | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | another slave not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | another slave | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a old one on the cornice | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | can | a old one on the cornice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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