The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 1
"Gentle dervish," replied Prince Bahman, "I come from far, and I seek the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water.
Who acts: Gentle dervish · What happens: reply, come, seek · To what, where: Bahman, Talking Bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gentle dervish), 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 | _ | 3 dervish | punct |
| 2 | Gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dervish | amod |
| 3 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dervish | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dervish | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 far | case |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seek | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seek | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 seek | nsubj |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bird | det |
| 20 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bird | compound |
| 21 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tree | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Tree | det |
| 24 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Tree | compound |
| 25 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bird | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Water | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Water | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Water | det |
| 29 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Water | amod |
| 30 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Gentle dervish | Bahman Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | Gentle dervish = dervish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | present | Gentle dervish = dervish | the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree | the Golden Water obl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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