The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 27

The stories must have been told in their present shape a good long while after the Caliph died, when nobody knew very exactly what had really happened.

Who acts: Caliph, nobody · What happens: tell, die, know, happen · To what, where: stories, present shape · 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 (Caliph, nobody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 shape	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shape	nmod:poss
9	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shape	amod
10	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 long	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 long	reparandum
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 told	ccomp
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 knew	mark
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 died	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Caliph	det
17	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 knew	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 knew	advmod
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 long	advcl
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 exactly	advmod
24	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	25 what	advmod
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 happened	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 happened	aux
27	really	really	ADV	_	28 happened	advmod
28	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 knew	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must · perfect · passive		the stories	Caliph's present shape	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	die	past	the Caliph			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	know	past	nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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