The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 25
"The only name it has, sire," replied she, "is the Singing Tree, and it is not a native of this country.
Who acts: name, only name, sire · What happens: have, sire, reply, be, not be · To what, where: only name, Singing Tree, native · 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 (name, only name, sire), 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 | _ | 8 sire | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 3 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 name | amod |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sire | nsubj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sire | punct |
| 8 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sire | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sire | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Tree | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 she | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 she | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Tree | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tree | det |
| 17 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Tree | compound |
| 18 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 native | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 native | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 native | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 native | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 native | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 native | det |
| 25 | native | native | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 country | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 native | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | name | the only name not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sire in a quote | the only name | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | sire | the Singing Tree | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | present | name | a native | of this country | 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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