The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 34

"Tell your master," said the tailor, "that we have brought a very sick man for him to cure; and," he added, holding out some money, "give him this in advance, so that he may not feel he is wasting his time."

Who acts: tailor, couple · What happens: tell, say, bring, cure, add, hold out · To what, where: master, that, money, this, couple, advance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, couple), 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	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 master	nmod:poss
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tailor	det
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tailor	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tailor	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 brought	nsubj:pass
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 brought	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 brought	aux
15	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tailor	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 sick	advmod
18	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obj
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 cure	mark
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cure	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cure	mark
23	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 man	acl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 added	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 added	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 and	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 added	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 added	nsubj
29	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 holding	punct
31	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 added	advcl
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 holding	compound:prt
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 money	det
34	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 holding	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 added	parataxis
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 give	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 advance	case
41	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 feel	punct
43	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	48 feel	mark
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 so	fixed
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 feel	nsubj
46	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 feel	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 feel	advmod
48	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 give	conj
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 wasting	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 wasting	aux
51	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 feel	ccomp
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 time	nmod:poss
53	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 wasting	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		your master				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the tailor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		that				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme man=Destination
4	cure in a quote	to-infinitive	couple					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer
5	add speech: assert	past	couple					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	hold out	gerund	couple not said here	some money				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
7	give in a quote	infinitive		this	couple	advance		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient this=Theme
8	not feel in a quote	may	couple					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	waste in a quote	present · progressive	couple				time	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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