The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 52

One of these I shall present to him saying, "Here are the thousand gold pieces that I offered for your daughter's hand, and here," I shall continue, holding out the second purse, "are another thousand to show you that I am a man who is better than his word."

Who acts: One, thousand gold pieces, I, thousand, basket, man · What happens: present, say, be, offer, continue, hold out · To what, where: servant, thousand gold pieces, second purse, you, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, thousand gold pieces, I, thousand), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 present	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 One	nmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 present	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 present	aux
6	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 present	obl
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 show	csubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Here	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Here	punct
12	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 saying	advmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Here	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pieces	det
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 pieces	nummod
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pieces	compound
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Here	nsubj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 offered	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 offered	nsubj
20	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pieces	acl:relcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 hand	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hand	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 daughter	case
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 offered	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 here	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 here	cc
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Here	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 continue	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 continue	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 continue	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 continue	aux
33	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 holding	punct
35	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 saying	ccomp
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 holding	compound:prt
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 purse	det
38	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 purse	amod
39	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 holding	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 holding	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 holding	punct
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 show	cop
43	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	44 thousand	det
44	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 show	nsubj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 show	mark
46	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 present	parataxis
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 show	iobj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 man	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 man	nsubj
50	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 man	cop
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 man	det
52	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 show	ccomp
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 better	nsubj
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 better	cop
55	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 man	acl:relcl
56	than	than	ADP	_	58 word	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 word	nmod:poss
58	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 better	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 present	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 present	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	present	shall	One of these		servant		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	the thousand gold pieces			here property	tree rules
4	offer in a quote	past	I	the thousand gold pieces		for your daughter's hand goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent that=Theme for hand=Goal
5	continue	shall	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hold out	gerund		the second purse			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
7	is in a quote	present	another thousand		you	show property	tree rules
8	is a in a quote	present	this basket = basket	a man			tree rules
9	is in a quote	present	a man			than servant's word; good property	tree rules
10	word in a quote		servant				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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