The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 92

I soon satisfied his curiosity, and the next day we went together to the Ivory Hill, and he was overjoyed to find that I had told him nothing but the truth.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: satisfy, go together, overjoy, find, tell · To what, where: curiosity, Ivory Hill, arrow, nothing · 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 (I, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 satisfied	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 satisfied	advmod
3	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 curiosity	nmod:poss
5	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 satisfied	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl:unmarked
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 satisfied	conj
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 Hill	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hill	det
16	Ivory	Ivory	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Hill	compound
17	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 overjoyed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 overjoyed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 overjoyed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 overjoyed	aux:pass
22	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 satisfied	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 overjoyed	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 told	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 told	aux
28	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 find	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 told	obj
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 truth	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 truth	det
33	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nothing	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	satisfy	past	I	arrow's curiosity				soon property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer
2	go together	past	we			the Ivory Hill	day	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
3	overjoy	past · passive		arrow					tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	I	nothing	arrow				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Topic

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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