The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 73
"You are right," replied the dervish, who understood me quite well, but did not wish to fight the matter. "
Who acts: You, dervish · What happens: be, reply, understand, not wish, fight · To what, where: me, matter · 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, dervish), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dervish | det |
| 9 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 understood | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 understood | nsubj |
| 12 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dervish | acl:relcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 understood | obj |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 understood | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wish | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 wish | cc |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wish | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 wish | advmod |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fight | mark |
| 22 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wish | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fight | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the dervish | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | understand | past | the dervish | me | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not wish | past · do-support | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | the matter | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Co-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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