The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 53
"Sire," he answered, "I got them from a lake which lies in the middle of four hills beyond yonder mountains."
Who acts: fisherman, lake · What happens: answer, get, lie · To what, where: Sire, fish, lake, middle · 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, lake), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lies | nsubj |
| 16 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lake | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 middle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 middle | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lies | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hills | case |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 hills | nummod |
| 22 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 middle | nmod |
| 23 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 25 mountains | case |
| 24 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 25 mountains | advmod |
| 25 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lies | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | fisherman | Sire | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | fisherman | fish | a lake | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from lake=Source | |||
| 3 | lie in a quote | present | a lake | the middle of four hills | beyond mountains | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
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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