The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 78
Why, bird, who ever heard of such a dish?
Who acts: bird · What happens: hear
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bird | punct |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bird | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dish | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 dish | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dish | det |
| 11 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | bird | ever | of such dish | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of dish=Stimulus |
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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