The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 62
And the first speaker answered, "I will tell you.
Who acts: first speaker · What happens: answer, tell · To what, where: you · 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 (first speaker), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 speaker | amod |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the first speaker | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the first speaker = speaker | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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