The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 55
And other voices replied, "Where is he, mamma, that we may eat him at once, as we are very hungry?"
Who acts: prince, we · What happens: reply, be, eat · To what, where: other voices, mamma, prince · 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 (prince, we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 voices | amod |
| 3 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mamma | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Where | punct |
| 7 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 mamma | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mamma | cop |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mamma | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mamma | punct |
| 11 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 eat | aux |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 eat | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hungry | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 hungry | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hungry | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hungry | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 hungry | advmod |
| 25 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eat | advcl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | participle · passive | other voices | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | prince | mamma | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | may | we | prince | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | we | hungry property | 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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