The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 79
"No matter," he replied, "go back by the path that you came."
Who acts: cousin, you · What happens: reply, go back, come · To what, where: matter, path · 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 (cousin, 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 matter | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 path | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 came | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 path | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | cousin | no matter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go back in a quote | infinitive | by the path | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | you | the path | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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