The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 42
"Let him stay," said Amina, who had before proved herself his friend. "
Who acts: Sadia, Amina · What happens: let, stay, say, prove · To what, where: Sadia, madam · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sadia, Amina), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 proved | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proved | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 proved | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 proved | aux |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 proved | advmod |
| 13 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 proved | obj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proved | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | Sadia | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | infinitive | Sadia not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | prove | past · perfect | Amina | madam | before property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Theme friend=Attribute |
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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