The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 12
She struck one of the fish with her rod, "Fish, fish," said she, "are you doing your duty?"
Who acts: cook, you · What happens: strike, say, do · To what, where: one fish, duty · 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 (cook, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fish | nummod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fish | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rod | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rod | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fish | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fish | punct |
| 12 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fish | punct |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Fish | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | conj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 doing | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 doing | punct |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 doing | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 doing | nsubj |
| 23 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 duty | nmod:poss |
| 25 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 doing | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 doing | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | cook | the one fish | with cook's rod | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fish=Patient with rod=Instrument | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | your duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
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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