The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 58
He is forever speaking ill of you, but I only reply by my tears.
Who acts: Aladdin, I · What happens: speak, reply · 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 (Aladdin, I), 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 | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 3 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 speaking | advmod |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 speaking | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ill | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reply | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 reply | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 reply | nsubj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 reply | advmod |
| 12 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 tears | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tears | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reply | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · progressive | Aladdin | forever, ill property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | present | I | by my tears | vn respond-113 «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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