The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 1

He finished, and it was Zobeida's turn to speak: "Go wherever you please," she said, addressing all three. "

Who acts: He, it · What happens: finish, be, speak, go, say, address · To what, where: turn, three · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 finished	nsubj
2	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turn	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turn	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turn	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	cop
7	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turn	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Zobeida	case
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finished	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 speak	mark
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 turn	acl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
14	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 finished	parataxis
15	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	21 said	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
17	please	please	INTJ	_	21 said	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 please	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Go	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 addressing	punct
23	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 said	advcl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 three	det
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 addressing	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past	He			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	is a	past	it	Zobeida's turn		tree rules
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go in a quote	infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past			wherever property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	address	gerund		all three		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Destination

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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