The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 48
"After having seen this," said the Sultan, "I cannot rest.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: have, see, say, not rest · To what, where: this · 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 | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 2 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 having | mark |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 having | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 seen | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rest | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 rest | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 rest | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 rest | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 rest | advmod |
| 16 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | see in a quote | participle | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not rest in a quote | can | the Sultan = sultan | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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