The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 70

"Captain," said I, "I am that Sindbad whom you believe to be dead, and these are my possessions!"

Who acts: Captain, you, these · What happens: say, be, believe · To what, where: possessions · 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 (Captain, you, these), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Captain	punct
2	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Captain	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Captain	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 whom	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 I	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 whom	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 whom	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 whom	mark
12	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 whom	nsubj
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 believe	nsubj
15	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 whom	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 dead	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 dead	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 believe	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 possessions	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 possessions	cc
21	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 possessions	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 possessions	cop
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 possessions	nmod:poss
24	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 whom	appos
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 possessions	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Captain			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Captain			tree rules
3	believe in a quote	present	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		dead property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	these	my possessions		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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