The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 11
"I am a genius," he said, "the son of the daughter of Eblis, prince of the genii.
Who acts: door · What happens: be, say · To what, where: 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 (door), 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 | _ | 5 genius | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 genius | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 genius | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 genius | det |
| 5 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 genius | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 genius | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Eblis | case |
| 18 | Eblis | Eblis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prince | punct |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 genii | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 genii | det |
| 23 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 prince | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | door | a genius | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | door | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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