The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 15

Is there any other verdict possible?" he asked the grand-vizir, who was as much impressed as himself. "

Who acts: game, grand vizir · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: grand vizir · 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 (game, grand vizir), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 possible	cop
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 Is	expl
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 verdict	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 verdict	amod
5	verdict	verdict	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 possible	obl:unmarked
6	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 possible	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 possible	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 possible	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vizir	det
12	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 vizir	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 grand	punct
14	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 impressed	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 impressed	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 impressed	cop
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 impressed	advmod
20	impressed	impressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 vizir	acl:relcl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 impressed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 possible	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 possible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			any other verdict obl:unmarked; possible property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	game	the grand vizir		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient
3	is in a quote	past	the grand vizir		as game; impressed property	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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