The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 27
"Unhappy man," replied the dervish, "it is not my fault that this has befallen you, but it is a just chastisement.
Who acts: Unhappy man, sight · What happens: reply, not be, befall, be · To what, where: dervish, fault, this, chastisement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unhappy man, sight), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | Unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dervish | det |
| 8 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fault | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fault | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fault | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fault | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fault | advmod |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fault | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dervish | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 befallen | mark |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 befallen | aux |
| 19 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 fault | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 befallen | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chastisement | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 chastisement | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 chastisement | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 chastisement | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 chastisement | det |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 chastisement | advmod |
| 27 | chastisement | chastisement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Unhappy man | the dervish | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dervish=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | sight | my fault | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | befall in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | sight | a chastisement | 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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