The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 5
The Caliph, much surprised at this request, replied gently: "My good man, that which you ask is impossible.
Who acts: you, good man · What happens: reply, ask, be · To what, where: good man · 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 (you, good man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 request | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 request | det |
| 8 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 surprised | parataxis |
| 11 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 10 replied | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 14 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 man | nmod:poss |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 impossible | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 impossible | nsubj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ask | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 ask | nsubj |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 that | acl:relcl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 impossible | cop |
| 23 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | gently property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | My good man | My good man not said here | impossible property | 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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