The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 80
"I have learnt," replied the king, "that you are a spy, and intend to kill me.
Who acts: king, you · What happens: learn, reply, be, intend, kill · To what, where: spy, king · 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 (king, you), 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 learnt | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 learnt | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learnt | aux |
| 4 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 learnt | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spy | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 spy | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 spy | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 spy | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 spy | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 spy | det |
| 16 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 intend | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 intend | cc |
| 19 | intend | intend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 intend | xcomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | present · perfect | the king and a spy = king | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the king and a spy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | a spy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | intend in a quote | infinitive | the king and a spy not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the king and a spy not said here | the king and a spy = king | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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