The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 66
"No, no," he said, "my mind is made up.
Who acts: Sultan, my · What happens: say, make up, mind · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:3372): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 made | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make up in a quote | present · passive | my mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | mind in a quote | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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