The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 17
"It is," they all replied, except Giafar, who was silent.
Who acts: Giafar · What happens: be · To what, where: mouthpiece
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 (Giafar), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 they | det |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Giafar | punct |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 11 Giafar | case |
| 11 | Giafar | Giafar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 silent | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 silent | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 silent | cop |
| 15 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Giafar | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | mouthpiece | except Giafar; reply property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Giafar | silent property | tree rules |
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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