The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 80
He would say no more, and, greatly puzzled, I returned to my room in the palace and went to bed.
Who acts: cousin, I · What happens: say, puzzle, return, go · To what, where: more, palace, bed · 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, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 say | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 puzzled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 puzzled | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 puzzled | punct |
| 9 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 10 puzzled | advmod |
| 10 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 say | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 returned | nsubj |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 room | nmod:poss |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 returned | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 bed | case |
| 23 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | cousin | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 2 | puzzle | participle | cousin not said here | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | return | past | I | the palace | to my room result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | |||
| 4 | go | past | I not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_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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