The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 31
"False wretch!" said the Sultan, "come hither," and showed him from the window the place where his palace had stood.
Who acts: False wretch, palace · What happens: say, come, show, stand · To what, where: place, Sultan, window · 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 (False wretch, palace), 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 | _ | 3 wretch | punct |
| 2 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wretch | amod |
| 3 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wretch | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wretch | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 showed | cc |
| 16 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 showed | iobj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 showed | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 showed | obj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 stood | advmod |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 palace | nmod:poss |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stood | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 stood | aux |
| 27 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 place | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | False wretch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | past | False wretch not said here | the place | Sultan | the window | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic | ||
| 4 | stand | past · perfect | Sultan's palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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