The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 46

Will you tell some of them to me?"

Who acts: you · What happens: tell · To what, where: some, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 tell	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 some	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	you	some	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Topic to i=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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