The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 87

Your slave is dead," she said, "and as for your son, I have not seen him for two months, and I do not know where he is."

Who acts: slave, Sultana, I, horse · What happens: be, say, not see, not know · To what, where: horse · 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 (slave, Sultana, I, horse), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 slave	nmod:poss
2	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 son	cc
12	as	as	ADV	_	15 son	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 son	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 seen	advmod
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dead	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seen	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 months	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 months	nummod
24	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seen	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 know	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 know	advmod
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dead	parataxis
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 is	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 is	nsubj
33	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 know	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your slave			dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Sultana				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not see	present · perfect	I	horse	month		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	present	horse				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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