The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 40
Rise," said the prince, "I am the cause of this misfortune, and not you.
Who acts: I · What happens: rise, say, be · To what, where: prince, cause · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rise | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rise | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cause | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cause | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 cause | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cause | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cause | det |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prince | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 misfortune | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 misfortune | det |
| 15 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cause | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 you | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 you | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 you | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 said | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the prince and the cause | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | the cause | of this misfortune | 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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