The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 55
"No; though I have hunted many times round that mountain, I have never heard of it," said the vizir.
Who acts: vizir · What happens: hunt, not hear, say · 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 (vizir), 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 hunted | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 hunted | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 hunted | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hunted | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunted | aux |
| 7 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 said | ccomp |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hunted | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 mountain | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 heard | advmod |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 hunted | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunted | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunted | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 vizir | det |
| 24 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt in a quote | present · perfect | the vizir = vizir | time | round that mountain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not hear in a quote | present · perfect | the vizir = vizir | of lake | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the vizir | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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