The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 52
The Indian rudely answered that it was his wife, and there was no occasion for anyone else to interfere between them.
Who acts: leader · What happens: answer, be, interfere · To what, where: wife, Indian occasion · 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 (leader), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 occasion | amod |
| 3 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 4 answered | advmod |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Indian | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wife | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wife | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 occasion | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 occasion | det |
| 15 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 anyone | case |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 occasion | nmod |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 anyone | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 interfere | mark |
| 20 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 occasion | acl |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 interfere | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 occasion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | rudely property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | leader | Cashmere's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | no Indian occasion | for anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | interfere | to-infinitive | between horsemen = horseman | 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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