The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 9
Do you call this a simple country house?" he said at last. "
Who acts: you, Sultan · What happens: call, say · To what, where: this, last · 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), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 6 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | 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 | 8 house | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · do-support | you | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Sultan | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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