The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 33
Sire," he replied, "the death of the parrot was nothing.
Who acts: vizir, parrot · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: death
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 (vizir, parrot), 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 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 death | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 death | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 death | det |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nothing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 parrot | det |
| 12 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 nothing | cop |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 death | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | vizir | the death | Sire vocative | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | the parrot | of nothing | 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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