The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 1
"You are an impudent liar!" cried the genius. "
Who acts: You, impudent liar · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: impudent liar, genius · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, impudent liar), 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 liar | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 liar | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 liar | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 liar | det |
| 5 | impudent | impudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 liar | amod |
| 6 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 liar | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 liar | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 genius | det |
| 11 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a impudent liar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a impudent liar | the genius | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Topic |
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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