The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 8
"My lord," returned the olive merchants, "we can assure you that the olives are those of the present year.
Who acts: lord, olive, we, olives · What happens: return, merchant, assure, be · To what, where: you, those
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 (lord, olive, we, olives), 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 | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 olive | det |
| 8 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 merchants | nsubj |
| 9 | merchants | merchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assure | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 assure | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 assure | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 assure | aux |
| 14 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 merchants | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 assure | iobj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 those | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 olives | det |
| 18 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 those | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 those | cop |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 assure | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 year | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 year | det |
| 23 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 year | amod |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 those | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | My lord | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | merchant | present | the olive | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | assure in a quote | can | we | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the olives | those | year | 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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