The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 7
"You are mistaken," said he, "Ali Cogia declares he put them in that vase seven years ago."
Who acts: Cadi, Ali · What happens: say, declare, put · To what, where: merchants, vase · 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, Ali), 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 | _ | 4 mistaken | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mistaken | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mistaken | aux:pass |
| 4 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistaken | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistaken | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 declares | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 declares | punct |
| 11 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 declares | nsubj |
| 12 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ali | flat |
| 13 | declares | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 declares | ccomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 vase | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 vase | det |
| 19 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 put | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 declares | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 declares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cadi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | declare speech: other in a quote | present | Ali | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | past | Cadi | merchants = merchant | that vase | ago property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in vase=Destination |
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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