The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 14

People in different countries tell them differently, but they are always the same stories, really, whether among little Zulus, at the Cape, or little Eskimo, near the North Pole.

Who acts: People, women · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: women, same stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, women), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 countries	case
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 countries	amod
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 People	nmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	differently	differently	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stories	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 stories	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stories	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stories	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 stories	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stories	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stories	amod
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 really	punct
17	really	really	ADV	_	5 tell	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Zulus	punct
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 Zulus	mark
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 Zulus	case
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Zulus	amod
22	Zulus	Zulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Cape	punct
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 Cape	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Cape	det
26	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Zulus	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Eskimo	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 Eskimo	cc
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Eskimo	amod
30	Eskimo	Eskimo	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Cape	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Pole	punct
32	near	near	ADP	_	35 Pole	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Pole	det
34	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Pole	compound
35	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Cape	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	People in different countries		women = woman			differently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is a	present	women = woman	the same stories				always property	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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