The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 61
Ali Cogia," he said, "when you brought me the vase of olives did I ever touch it?"
Who acts: Ali, you, I · What happens: say, bring, touch · To what, where: vase, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali, you, I), 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ali | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ali | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 brought | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 touch | advcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vase | det |
| 14 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 olives | case |
| 16 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 vase | nmod |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 touch | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 touch | nsubj |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 touch | advmod |
| 20 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 touch | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 touch | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ali | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | you | the vase of olives | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination vase=Theme | |||
| 3 | touch | past · do-support | I | vase | ever | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
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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