The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 108

"Go," I said to the steward, "take back this calf, take great care of it, and bring me another in its place instantly."

Who acts: steward, I · What happens: go, say, take back, take, bring, care · To what, where: steward, calf, great care, another, me, place · 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 steward	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 steward	det
9	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 take	advmod
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 calf	det
15	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 care	amod
19	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 care	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bring	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bring	cc
24	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obj
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 bring	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 place	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 place	nmod:poss
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bring	obl
30	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	24 bring	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	the steward = steward not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 clause=Topic
3	take back in a quote	infinitive			this calf			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument calf=Destination
4	take in a quote	infinitive		great care of steward				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	bring in a quote	infinitive	the steward = steward not said here	another	me	steward's place	instantly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination another=Theme
6	care in a quote		steward					nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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