The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 4
"What does it all mean?' asked the Caliph.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: mean, ask · To what, where: Caliph · 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 (Caliph), 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 | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mean | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 mean | advmod |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Caliph | det |
| 11 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | Caliph | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the Caliph | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent caliph=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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