The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 116
"Yes," said the Sultan; "hasten to set him at liberty, so that I may no longer hear his cries."
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: say, hasten, set, hear, cry · To what, where: Sultan, liberty, cries · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sultan | det |
| 7 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 hasten | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hasten | punct |
| 10 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 set | mark |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hasten | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 liberty | case |
| 15 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hear | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 hear | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 hear | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hear | aux |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 hear | advmod |
| 23 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hasten | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cries | nmod:poss |
| 25 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hear | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hasten in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | set in a quote | to-infinitive | Sultan | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at liberty=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | may | the Sultan = sultan | Sultan's cries | long property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | cry in a quote | Sultan | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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