The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 63
"What is the matter, my sister?" asked Prince Bahman; "why are you so grave?
Who acts: matter, Prince · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: matter, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, Prince), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Prince | flat |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 grave | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 grave | punct |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 grave | advmod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 grave | cop |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 grave | nsubj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 grave | advmod |
| 20 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the matter | Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Prince | grave 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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