The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 31
You say," he observed to the princess, "that this water does not come from any spring, neither is brought by pipes.
Who acts: You, Sultan, water · What happens: say, observe, not come, bring · To what, where: princess, neither · 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 (You, Sultan, water), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 observed | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 observed | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 observed | nsubj |
| 6 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 observed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 observed | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 spring | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 spring | det |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
| 22 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | aux:pass |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 say | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 pipes | case |
| 26 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 brought | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | observe in a quote | past | Sultan | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not come | present · do-support | this water | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | present · passive | neither | by pipes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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