The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 73
"He must be quite blind," returned the wife of the chief cook. "
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: be, return · To what, where: wife · 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), 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 | _ | 6 blind | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blind | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 blind | advmod |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wife | det |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cook | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cook | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cook | amod |
| 15 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blind | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | Sultan | blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the wife of the chief cook | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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