The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 98
"Sidi-Nouman," replied the Caliph, "your story is indeed a strange one, and there is no excuse to be offered for your wife.
Who acts: Caliph, story, excuse · What happens: reply, be, offer · To what, where: strange one · 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 (Caliph, story, excuse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:3009): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 18 one | vocative |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nouman | punct |
| 4 | Nouman | Nouman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sidi | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sidi | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sidi | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caliph | det |
| 9 | Caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 story | nmod:poss |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | cop |
| 15 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 is | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 excuse | det |
| 24 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 offered | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 offered | aux:pass |
| 27 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 excuse | acl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 wife | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 offered | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Caliph | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | your story | a strange one | Sidi vocative; indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | no excuse | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | offer in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | no excuse not said here | for your wife goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: for wife=Goal |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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