The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 32
"Who is this imbecile?" cried some, "stop him at once." "
Who acts: imbecile · What happens: be, cry, stop · To what, where: imbecile, some · 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 (imbecile), 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 | _ | 5 imbecile | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 imbecile | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 imbecile | cop |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 imbecile | det |
| 5 | imbecile | imbecile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 imbecile | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 imbecile | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stop | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 stop | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this imbecile | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | this imbecile | some | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | infinitive | imbecile | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
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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