The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 9
The merchant replied readily, "Look, this is the key of my shop: take it, and put the vase wherever you like.
Who acts: merchant, this, you · What happens: reply, look, be, take, put, like · To what, where: key, merchant, vase · 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 (merchant, this, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 3 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 7 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 key | punct |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 key | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 key | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 key | det |
| 12 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 shop | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shop | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 key | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 vase | det |
| 23 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 24 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 like | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 like | nsubj |
| 26 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the merchant | readily property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | the merchant not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | the key | of my shop | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | merchant | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | put in a quote | infinitive | the vase | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent vase=Goal | |||||
| 6 | like in a quote | present | you | wherever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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