The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 73
"Sidi-Nouman," returned the daughter, "say no more about the obligation you are under to us.
Who acts: Sidi, you · What happens: return, say, be · To what, where: daughter, more · 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 (Sidi, you), 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 Sidi | punct |
| 2 | Sidi | Sidi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nouman | punct |
| 4 | Nouman | Nouman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sidi | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sidi | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 returned | conj |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 say | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 obligation | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 obligation | det |
| 17 | obligation | obligation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 more | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 us | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 us | cop |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 obligation | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Sidi and Nouman | the daughter | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Sidi and Nouman not said here | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | under us | 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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