The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 103

"Keep her for yourself," I said to the steward, "and if you have a fat calf, bring that in her stead."

Who acts: steward, I · What happens: keep, say, have, bring · To what, where: cow, steward, fat calf, stead · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward, I), 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 Keep	punct
2	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Keep	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 yourself	case
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Keep	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Keep	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 steward	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 steward	det
12	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 steward	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 steward	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bring	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 calf	det
20	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 calf	amod
21	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
24	that	that	ADV	_	23 bring	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 stead	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 stead	nmod:poss
27	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	imperative	the steward = steward not said here	cow			for the steward = steward	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	I		the steward			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to steward=Recipient
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the steward = steward	a fat calf				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient
4	bring in a quote	infinitive	I not said here			cow's stead	that property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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