The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 65
But the sultan did not believe his words, and said; ‘This second year I have eaten no dates, because of my sons.
Who acts: sultan, I · What happens: not believe, say, eat, word · To what, where: words, dates · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 believe | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 believe | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 eaten | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 eaten | punct |
| 14 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 year | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 year | amod |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eaten | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 eaten | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 eaten | aux |
| 19 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 dates | det |
| 21 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 eaten | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sons | punct |
| 23 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 26 sons | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 because | fixed |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sons | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 eaten | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past · do-support | the sultan | sultan's words | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | eat | present · perfect | I | no dates | year | because my sons | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient | ||
| 4 | word | sultan | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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