The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 2
They are all worthy one of the other," he said to himself, "and I am not surprised that they think so much of her opinions.
Who acts: courts, Highness, I, princess · What happens: be, say, not be, think, opine · To what, where: worthy one, Highness, much · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courts, Highness, I, princess), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 4 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 other | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 surprised | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 surprised | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 surprised | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 surprised | advmod |
| 21 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 think | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 think | nsubj |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 surprised | advcl |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 think | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 opinions | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 opinions | nmod:poss |
| 29 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 much | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | courts = court | worthy one | of the other; all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Highness | Highness | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | I | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | courts = court | much | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 5 | opine | princess | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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