The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 25
But putting him aside she addressed the others a second time, saying, "Answer me; who are you?
Who acts: vizir, you · What happens: put, address, say, answer, be · To what, where: man, others, vizir · 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 (vizir, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 addressed | cc |
| 2 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 addressed | csubj |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 putting | obj |
| 4 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 2 putting | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 addressed | nsubj |
| 6 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 addressed | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 addressed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 addressed | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Answer | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Answer | punct |
| 16 | Answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 saying | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Answer | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 who | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 addressed | parataxis |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 who | cop |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 who | nsubj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | man | aside property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | ||||
| 2 | address | past | vizir | the others | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | gerund | vizir not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | vizir | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | 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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