The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 26
"I am satisfied," replied Zobeida; "you can go when you like."
Who acts: Zobeida, you · What happens: be, reply, go, like · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zobeida, 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 | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | cop |
| 4 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | parataxis |
| 8 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 satisfied | parataxis |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 like | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Zobeida | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Zobeida | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | can | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | like in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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