The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 33
"No, madam," replied one, "we are no blood relations at all, only brothers by our mode of life."
Who acts: madam, we · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: one, blood relations, all · 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 (madam, we), 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 madam | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 relations | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 relations | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 relations | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 relations | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 relations | det |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 relations | compound |
| 15 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 relations | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brothers | punct |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 brothers | advmod |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 relations | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 mode | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mode | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 relations | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mode | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 relations | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | madam | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | we | no blood relations and brothers | all | by our mode of life | 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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