The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 139
"So near mine!" said the King of the Black Isles.
What happens: say · 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: 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 | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 mine | advmod |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 mine | case |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Isles | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Isles | det |
| 12 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Isles | amod |
| 13 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 King | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | 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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