The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 71
"A man, madam," I replied; "I have nothing to do with genii."
Who acts: man · What happens: reply, have, do · To what, where: nothing · 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 (man), 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 madam | punct |
| 5 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nothing | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 genii | case |
| 18 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | a man and madam | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | a man and madam = man | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | a man and madam = man not said here | nothing not said here | with genii | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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