The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 54
"Do you know this lake?" asked the Sultan of the grand-vizir.
Who acts: you, Sultan · What happens: know, ask · To what, where: lake · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sultan | det |
| 11 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 vizir | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vizir | det |
| 14 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 vizir | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 grand | punct |
| 16 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Sultan | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | this lake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lake=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sultan of the grand vizir | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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