The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 46
"Oh, madam," cried the porter, "let me stay yet a little while.
Who acts: madam · What happens: cry, let, stay · To what, where: porter, madam · 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), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 porter | det |
| 9 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 stay | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 while | amod |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | madam | the porter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porter=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | madam not said here | madam | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | infinitive | madam not said here | yet; while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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