The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 42
The baker, who had of course been only in joke, was exceedingly surprised at my cleverness, and the woman, who was at last convinced that the man spoke the truth, produced another piece of money in its place.
Who acts: baker, woman, man · What happens: have, be, convince, speak, produce · To what, where: cleverness, truth, piece, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baker, woman, 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 baker | det |
| 2 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 baker | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 joke | case |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 of | fixed |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 joke | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 joke | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 joke | case |
| 11 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 baker | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 surprised | cop |
| 14 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 15 surprised | advmod |
| 15 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 cleverness | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surprised | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 convinced | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 convinced | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 convinced | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 last | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 last | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 last | cop |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 last | case |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | conj |
| 28 | convinced | convince | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 surprised | parataxis |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 spoke | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spoke | nsubj |
| 32 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 convinced | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 truth | det |
| 34 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spoke | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 produced | punct |
| 36 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 convinced | conj |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 piece | det |
| 38 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 produced | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 money | case |
| 40 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 piece | nmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 place | case |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 place | nmod:poss |
| 43 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 produced | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the baker | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | of joke | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the baker | my cleverness | exceedingly, surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | the woman | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | convince | past | the woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | past | the man | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | produce | past | the woman not said here | another piece of money | baker's place | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Result |
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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