The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 105
"My dear nephew," he said, "your story gives me some hope.
Who acts: sorrow, story · What happens: say, give · To what, where: hope, sorrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorrow, story), 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 nephew | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nephew | amod |
| 4 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nephew | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nephew | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gives | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 gives | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gives | nsubj |
| 13 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gives | iobj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 hope | det |
| 16 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gives | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | sorrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present | your story | some hope | sorrow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hope=Theme |
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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