The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 16
"Is it true, gentlemen," asked Zobeida, drawing herself up, "that you have charged this man to put me that question?"
Who acts: mouthpiece · What happens: be, ask, draw up, charge, put · To what, where: Zobeida, Madam, that, me · 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 (mouthpiece), 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 true | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gentlemen | punct |
| 6 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 true | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drawing | punct |
| 12 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 drawing | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 drawing | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 charged | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 charged | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 charged | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 charged | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 charged | aux |
| 20 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 drawing | advcl |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 charged | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 put | mark |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 man | acl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 question | det |
| 27 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 charged | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | mouthpiece | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Zobeida | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent zobeida=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | draw up | gerund | Madam | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||||
| 4 | charge in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient man=Asset | |||||
| 5 | put in a quote | to-infinitive | me | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent i=Asset question=Goal |
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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