The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 34
"And you," she asked, addressing another, "were you born blind of one eye?"
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, address, bear · To what, where: another, you · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 you | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 addressing | punct |
| 9 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 addressing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 born | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 born | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 born | aux:pass |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 born | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 born | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 eye | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 eye | nummod |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 born | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 born | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | address | gerund | you not said here | another | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bear in a quote | past · passive | you | of one eye; blind property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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