The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 51
Fisherman," he said, "the fish you have brought us have caused me some anxiety.
Who acts: fisherman, you · What happens: say, bring, cause · To what, where: fish, us, me · 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 (fisherman, 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 | Fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fisherman | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fisherman | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 caused | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fish | acl:relcl |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 caused | aux |
| 15 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 caused | iobj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 anxiety | det |
| 18 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect | you | the fish not said here | us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination | |||
| 3 | cause | present · perfect · passive | the fish | me | tree rules |
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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