The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 22
"Very well," said the genius, drawing his sword, "take this, and cut off his head."
Who acts: genius · What happens: say, draw, take, cut off · To what, where: sword, this, head · 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 (genius), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 genius | det |
| 8 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawing | punct |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sword | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 drawing | advcl |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cut | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cut | cc |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | parataxis |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 cut | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cut | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the genius | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | the genius not said here | man's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | the genius not said here | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut off in a quote | participle | man's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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