The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 113
"My friend," said the genius, "do not do such a cruel thing.
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, not do · To what, where: cruel thing · 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 (friend), 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 | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 genius | det |
| 8 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 thing | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | infinitive · do-support | My friend not said here | such cruel thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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