The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 59
This," said one of them, "is apparently one of our Arab brothers, who has rebelled against our ruler."
Who acts: Arab brothers · What happens: say, be, rebel · To what, where: This, one · 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 (Arab brothers), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 said | obl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 This | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 11 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 12 one | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 brothers | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brothers | amod |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rebelled | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 rebelled | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 rebelled | aux |
| 20 | rebelled | rebel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 ruler | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ruler | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rebelled | obl:agent |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | This | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | one | of our Arab brothers; apparently property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rebel | present · perfect | our Arab brothers | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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