The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 69

"Tell me," said he, "can you shoot with a bow?"

Who acts: you, merchant · What happens: tell, say, shoot · To what, where: merchant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, merchant), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shoot	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 shoot	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shoot	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 shoot	nsubj
12	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 bow	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bow	det
15	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoot	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	merchant		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	merchant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	shoot in a quote	can	you		with a bow	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bow=Instrument

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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