The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 17

Just at this moment a servant came out of the palace, and taking him by the arm said, "Come with me, the noble Sindbad, my master, wishes to speak to you."

Who acts: servant, taking · What happens: come out, take, say, come, wish, speak · To what, where: palace, Sindbad, noble Sindbad, you · 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 (servant, taking), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 servant	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 palace	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
14	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 said	csubj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taking	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 arm	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 arm	det
18	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obl
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Come	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Come	punct
22	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Sindbad	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Sindbad	det
27	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Sindbad	amod
28	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Come	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 master	punct
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 master	nmod:poss
31	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Sindbad	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wishes	punct
33	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Come	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 speak	mark
35	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wishes	xcomp
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 speak	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 Come	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	a servant	the palace		moment		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient palace=Result
2	take	gerund			Sindbad		by the arm	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	taking					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	infinitive		the noble Sindbad			with taking	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wish in a quote	present						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	speak speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive			you			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent

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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