The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 91
"That is my own opinion," said he, "and from this moment I declare him to be my son-in-law."
Who acts: That, own opinion, opinion, son · What happens: be, say, declare · To what, where: own opinion, Sultan, law · 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 (That, own opinion, opinion, son), 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 opinion | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 opinion | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 opinion | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 opinion | amod |
| 6 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 opinion | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 opinion | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 declare | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 moment | cc |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 he | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 declare | nsubj |
| 18 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 declare | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 law | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 law | cop |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 law | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 law | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 law | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 law | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 in | punct |
| 27 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 declare | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | 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 | That | my own opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | my own opinion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other in a quote | present | opinion | Sultan | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | son | my law | tree rules |
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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