The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 31

When the merchant saw that the genius was determined to cut off his head, he said: "One word more, I entreat you.

Who acts: merchant, genius · What happens: see, be, cut off, say, entreat · To what, where: head, One word, you · 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 (merchant, genius), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 determined	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 genius	det
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 determined	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 determined	cop
9	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cut	mark
11	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 determined	xcomp
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 cut	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 word	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 word	punct
20	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 word	nummod
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 word	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 entreat	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 entreat	nsubj
25	entreat	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 entreat	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the merchant				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the genius			determined property	tree rules
3	cut off	to-infinitive	the genius not said here	genius's head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	merchant	One word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	entreat in a quote	present	merchant		you		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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