The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 8
"My lord," answered all the Calenders together, "we came here for the first time an hour before you."
Who acts: lord, we · What happens: answer, come · To what, where: Calenders · 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 (lord, 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 Calenders | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Calenders | det |
| 9 | Calenders | calender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 answered | obj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 answered | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hour | det |
| 21 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My lord | all Calenders | together property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent calender=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | we | here | before you; time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Location |
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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