The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 21
"Baba-Abdalla, your Highness," said he.
Who acts: Baba · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baba), 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 | _ | 2 Baba | punct |
| 2 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Abdalla | punct |
| 4 | Abdalla | Abdalla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Baba | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Highness | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Baba | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Highness | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Highness | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Baba and Abdalla | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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