The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 73

I need hardly say that I took special care not to inform him that I was the Agib whom he dreaded.

Who acts: I, Agib · What happens: need, say, take, not inform, be, dread · To what, where: special care, Agib · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Agib), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 need	ccomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 took	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 inform	advcl
8	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 care	amod
9	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 inform	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 inform	mark
12	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 inform	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 Agib	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Agib	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Agib	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Agib	det
18	Agib	Agib	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 inform	obl
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 dreaded	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dreaded	nsubj
21	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Agib	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	I not said here			hardly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	past	I	special care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	not inform speech: other	to-infinitive			Agib		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is a	past	I	the Agib			tree rules
6	dread	past	Agib	the Agib			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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