The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 20

"Alas! what shall I say to the Sultan?

Who acts: cook · What happens: say · To what, where: Sultan · 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), 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	_	7 say	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Sultan	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sultan	det
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	shall	cook		the Sultan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to sultan=Recipient

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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