The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 59

One day, when the grand-vizir was talking to his eldest daughter, who was his delight and pride, Scheherazade said to him, "Father, I have a favour to ask of you.

Who acts: grand vizir, eldest daughter, Scheherazade, favour · What happens: talk, be, say, have, ask · To what, where: delight, Vizir, favour · 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 (grand vizir, eldest daughter, Scheherazade, favour), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talking	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 talking	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vizir	det
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vizir	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grand	punct
8	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 talking	aux
10	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 daughter	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
13	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 daughter	amod
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 delight	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 delight	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 delight	cop
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 delight	nmod:poss
19	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 daughter	appos
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pride	cc
21	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 delight	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
23	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Father	punct
29	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 have	vocative
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 favour	det
34	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 ask	mark
36	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 have	xcomp
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 ask	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	the grand vizir				to Vizir's eldest daughter	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to daughter=Co-Agent
2	is a	past	Vizir's eldest daughter	Vizir's delight and pride				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Scheherazade		Vizir	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	have in a quote	present	Scheherazade	a favour			Father vocative	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	a favour not said here				of Vizir	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of 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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