The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 10
"I am sure," said the king, "that this man is the most faithful and virtuous of men.
Who acts: king, man · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, man), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 faithful | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 faithful | mark |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 faithful | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 faithful | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 faithful | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 faithful | advmod |
| 18 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 virtuous | cc |
| 20 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 faithful | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 virtuous | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the king = king | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | this man | faithful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | this man not said here | of men | 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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