The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 11
Be silent," he said, "you are a thief.
Who acts: Cadi, you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: thief · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cadi, 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 silent | cop |
| 2 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 silent | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 silent | 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 | _ | 12 thief | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thief | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 thief | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thief | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thief | det |
| 12 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | silent property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Cadi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | a thief | tree rules |
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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