The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 4
To this the genius only replied by insults and blows.
What happens: reply
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: 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 genius | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 genius | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 genius | det |
| 4 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 insults | case |
| 8 | insults | insult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 replied | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blows | cc |
| 10 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 insults | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | to this genius; by insults and blows | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to genius=Theme |
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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