The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 91

They told me the way I was to travel, and I left them.

Who acts: princesses, I · What happens: tell, be, leave · To what, where: way, me, princesses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princesses, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 travel	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 travel	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 travel	mark
9	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 left	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	princesses = princess	the way	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic
2	is	past	I	the way not said here		travel property	tree rules
3	leave	past	I	princesses = princess			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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