The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 116
"Do you think I can tell you while I am shut up in here?" replied the genius. "
Who acts: you, I, genius · What happens: think, tell, shut up, reply · To what, where: you, I · 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 (you, I, genius), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 shut | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 shut | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shut | aux:pass |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tell | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 shut | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 here | case |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 shut | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 genius | det |
| 20 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | shut up in a quote | present · passive | I | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the genius | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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