The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 70
"Ali Cogia," answered the merchant, "you allow that it was a vase of olives you placed in my charge.
Who acts: Ali, you, despair, my · What happens: answer, allow, be, place, charge · To what, where: merchant, vase, olives, charge · 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, despair, my), 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 Ali | punct |
| 2 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ali | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ali | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 allow | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 allow | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 allow | nsubj |
| 12 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 vase | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 vase | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 vase | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 vase | det |
| 17 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 allow | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 olives | case |
| 19 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 vase | nmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 placed | nsubj |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 olives | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 charge | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 charge | nmod:poss |
| 24 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 placed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Ali | the merchant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allow in a quote | present | you | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | despair | a vase | of olives | tree rules | |||
| 4 | place in a quote | past | you | olives not said here | my charge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent olive=Theme in charge=Destination | |||
| 5 | charge in a quote | my | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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