The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 28

And I will answer for the rest of the company that they are equally pleased, but I wish you to tell me what it was that you said just now in the street."

Who acts: I, words, rest · What happens: answer, be, wish, tell · To what, where: you, me · 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 (I, words, rest), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answer	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 answer	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	aux
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 rest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 company	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 company	det
10	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rest	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 pleased	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pleased	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pleased	cop
14	equally	equally	ADV	_	15 pleased	advmod
15	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answer	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wish	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wish	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wish	nsubj
19	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 wish	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wish	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 said	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 said	cop
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 said	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	ccomp
30	just	just	ADV	_	31 now	advmod
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 said	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 street	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 street	det
34	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 now	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	future	I			for the rest of the company	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	words = word			equally, pleased property	tree rules
3	wish	present	I	you			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is	past	rest		now	say property	tree rules

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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