The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 10
The accused merchant opened his mouth as if to protest, but the Cadi gave him no time. "
Who acts: accused merchant, Cadi · What happens: accuse, open, protest, give · To what, where: mouth, Bagdad
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accused merchant, Cadi), 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 | 3 merchant | det |
| 2 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 merchant | amod |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 protest | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 protest | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 protest | mark |
| 10 | protest | protest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 opened | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cadi | det |
| 14 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accuse | participle | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | open | past | the accused merchant | Bagdad's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | protest speech: disagree | to-infinitive | the accused merchant not said here | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past | the Cadi | Bagdad | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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