The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 110
"If the Greek king," said the fisherman, "had spared the physician, he would not have thus died.
Who acts: fisherman, king · What happens: say, spare, not have, die · To what, where: physician · 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 (fisherman, king), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 king | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fisherman | det |
| 10 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spared | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 spared | punct |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spared | aux |
| 14 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 physician | det |
| 16 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spared | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 have | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 spared | conj |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 23 died | advmod |
| 23 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spare in a quote | past · perfect | the fisherman not said here | the physician | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent physician=Asset | ||||
| 3 | not have in a quote | would | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | participle | king not said here | thus property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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